hisi_qm_init(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 hisi_qm_init(9) — like, the whole glow-up of your qm ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (yep, the kernel girlies have their own manual and it's lowkey iconic 🎀), and today's main character is hisi_qm_init — the function that gets your qm all set up and ready before anything else can happen. no cap, nothing works until this runs first. 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

hisi_qm_init — Initialize configures about qm.

like literally, it initializes the configures. that's the vibe. that's the whole job. 😌

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int hisi_qm_init (struct hisi_qm *qm );

yup, that's it. one argument, one int coming back at you. clean. ✨

🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

  • qm — the qm that needs init. like, hand it over bestie, this is the one getting the full setup treatment 💅

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so what does it actually do? fr fr, it's simple and that's the beauty of it:

This function init qm — and once it's done, that's when you're allowed to call hisi_qm_start to put qm into work. 🏁

think of it like this: hisi_qm_init is the get-ready-with-me era, and hisi_qm_start is the main character entrance. you can NOT skip straight to the entrance, okay? the order matters. 👑

⚠️ okay tiny reality check: the order is init → then hisi_qm_start. don't be out here calling hisi_qm_start on an un-inited qm, that's not the move. 🙈

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

so there's a whole friend group here and honestly they all ate. the kernel file that holds all this magic is ./drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c 📁 — go say hi.

and the rest of the cast, in the order the manual gave them to us:

that's the whole group chat, bestie. literally all 37 of them. 💀 iykyk.

✨ and that's the page!! ✨ mwah 💋 — this lil beauty lives in ./drivers/crypto/hisilicon, and the manual was dated October 2026, so mark your calendars babes 🗓️💖 go init some qms, you've got this 🫶🌸

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