i40e_hmc_get_object_va(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 i40e_hmc_get_object_va — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie

Okay so picture this: it's giving kernel API, it's giving Intel ethernet driver, and it's literally the whole i40e_hmc_get_object_va moment. This is the man page (manual name: Kernel API Manual, in case the vibe check required receipts ✨) and we're about to read it together. Grab a strawberry drink 🍓, let's go.

🌸 NAME 🌸

i40e_hmc_get_object_va — retrieves an object's virtual address. That's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int i40e_hmc_get_object_va (struct i40e_hw *hw , u8 **object_base , enum
i40e_hmc_lan_rsrc_type rsrc_type , u32 obj_idx );

Not me obsessing over this signature 🫶 like yes, four arguments, very demure, very mindful.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — the hardware struct, and it's the main character here because that's where we obtain the i40e_hmc_info pointer from 👑
  • object_base — pointer to u64 to get the va. Lowkey the whole point of the function ngl 🔥
  • rsrc_type — the hmc resource type, aka which flavor of resource we're talking about 🌈
  • obj_idx — hmc object index, the little number that says which object, iykyk ⭐

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what does she actually do? This function retrieves the object's virtual address from the object base pointer. Periodt. 💀

And where's it used? LAN Queue contexts — that's her whole lane, fr fr. Not me being obsessed with a virtual address lookup, but here we are 😭💖

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_lan_hmc.c — that's home base, go visit her 🏠

And the whole friend group, all of them, no one left behind 🫶:

Bestie listen 👀 — this page is sourced from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e, dated October 2026, and it's the i40e_hmc_get_object_va(9) manual. Screenshot it, save it, cite it, slay 💅✨🎀
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