epf_ntb_conf...pad_bar_free(9)

💅 epf_ntb_config_spad_bar_free — free that config + scratchpad memory, bestie ✨

okay so real quick, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (yes, the kernel has lore and we're reading it 🫶), and it's about epf_ntb_config_spad_bar_free. Say that five times fast, iykyk 😭

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🌸 NAME

epf_ntb_config_spad_bar_free — frees the physical memory that's associated with the config + scratchpad region. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it slayfully 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS

void epf_ntb_config_spad_bar_free (struct epf_ntb *ntb );

no return value, no cap — it's void, she just goes in and frees the thing 🔥

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🎀 ARGUMENTS

• ntb — the struct epf_ntb * for the NTB device that facilitates communication between HOST and VHOST 👑 like, this is literally the bridge between the two of them, the main character of the whole communication situation fr fr

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🦋 SEE ALSO

so many siblings, we love a big family 🌈:

• Kernel file ./drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-vntb.c
• epf_ntb_link_up(9)
• epf_ntb_configure_mw(9)
• epf_ntb_teardown_mw(9)
• epf_ntb_cmd_handler(9)
• epf_ntb_config_sspad_bar_clear(9)
• epf_ntb_config_sspad_bar_set(9)
• epf_ntb_config_spad_bar_alloc(9)
• epf_ntb_configure_interrupt(9)
• epf_ntb_db_bar_init(9)
• epf_ntb_db_bar_clear(9)
• epf_ntb_mw_bar_init(9)
• epf_ntb_mw_bar_clear(9)
• epf_ntb_is_bar_used(9)
• epf_ntb_find_bar(9)
• epf_ntb_init_epc_bar(9)
• epf_ntb_epc_init(9)
• epf_ntb_epc_cleanup(9)
• epf_ntb_add_cfs(9)
• epf_ntb_bind(9)
• epf_ntb_unbind(9)
• epf_ntb_probe(9)

ngl, if you're reading this one you probably want epf_ntb_config_spad_bar_alloc(9) too — you know, the icon that actually allocates the thing this one frees 🙈 they're a matching set, don't split them up 🥺

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🧚 sign-off

that's the whole vibe, bestie — brought to you by ./drivers/pci/endpoint/functions, dated October 2026, and filed under epf_ntb_conf...pad_bar_free(9) ⭐ stay hydrated, free your memory, and don't leak 💜🎀