ibmvmc_write(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Okay so we're in the Kernel API Manual, and today's main character is ibmvmc_write(9). Its whole NAME vibe is:

ibmvmc_write - Write. That's it, that's the name, no cap 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here's the signature, bestie — keep every space and comma exactly as it is:

ssize_t ibmvmc_write (struct file *file , const char *buffer , size_t count , loff_t *ppos );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• file — the file struct, periodt.
• buffer — Character buffer ✨
• count — Count field 🎀
• ppos — Offset 🦋

💖 RETURN 💖

• 0 - Success 💖
• Non-zero - Failure 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Okay bestie, the whole friend group is here — literally all of them, in order:

• Kernel file: ./drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c
• h_request_vmc(9)
• ibmvmc_handle_event(9)
• ibmvmc_release_crq_queue(9)
• ibmvmc_reset_crq_queue(9)
• crq_queue_next_crq(9)
• ibmvmc_send_crq(9)
• alloc_dma_buffer(9)
• free_dma_buffer(9)
• ibmvmc_get_valid_hmc_buffer(9)
• ibmvmc_get_free_hmc_buffer(9)
• ibmvmc_free_hmc_buffer(9)
• ibmvmc_count_hmc_buffers(9)
• ibmvmc_get_free_hmc(9)
• ibmvmc_return_hmc(9)
• ibmvmc_send_open(9)
• ibmvmc_send_close(9)
• ibmvmc_send_capabilities(9)
• ibmvmc_send_add_buffer_resp(9)
• ibmvmc_send_rem_buffer_resp(9)
• ibmvmc_send_msg(9)
• ibmvmc_open(9)
• ibmvmc_close(9)
• ibmvmc_read(9)
• ibmvmc_poll(9)
• ibmvmc_setup_hmc(9)
• ibmvmc_ioctl_sethmcid(9)
• ibmvmc_ioctl_query(9)
• ibmvmc_ioctl_requestvmc(9)
• ibmvmc_ioctl(9)
• ibmvmc_add_buffer(9)
• ibmvmc_rem_buffer(9)
• ibmvmc_process_capabilities(9)
• ibmvmc_validate_hmc_session(9)
• ibmvmc_reset(9)
• ibmvmc_reset_task(9)
• ibmvmc_process_open_resp(9)
• ibmvmc_process_close_resp(9)
• ibmvmc_crq_process(9)
• ibmvmc_handle_crq_init(9)
• ibmvmc_handle_crq(9)
• ibmvmc_init_crq_queue(9)

This page is chilling in ./drivers/misc, dated October 2026, and it's literally ibmvmc_write(9) signing off — byeee, mwah 💋🫶✨