ice_allocate_pf(9)

🦋 NAME (ice_allocate_pf(9)) 🦋

okay bestie, welcome to the ice_allocate_pf(9) page from the Kernel API Manual! She does one iconic thing: Allocate devlink and return PF structure pointer. That's the whole name, no cap. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct ice_pf * ice_allocate_pf (struct device *dev );

Lowkey that's the entire signature. Slay. 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the device to allocate for. Yep, this is the device the allocation is happening for, main character energy only. ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so picture this: ice_allocate_pf() allocates a devlink instance for this dev, and then returns the private area as the PF structure. The devlink memory is kept track of through devres — by adding an action to remove it when unwinding. That's the tea, fr fr. 🌸

no extra lore, no secret side quests: allocate devlink, hand back the private area as the PF structure, track the devlink memory with devres, and add an action to remove it when unwinding. iconic behavior only. 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The kernel file situation is right here, bestie:

• Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/devlink.c

and the whole devlink/ice function squad:

• ice_devlink_info_get(9)
• ice_devlink_reload_empr_start(9)
• ice_devlink_reinit_down(9)
• ice_devlink_reload_down(9)
• ice_devlink_reload_empr_finish(9)
• ice_get_tx_topo_user_sel(9)
• ice_update_tx_topo_user_sel(9)
• ice_devlink_tx_sched_layers_get(9)
• ice_devlink_tx_sched_layers_set(9)
• ice_devlink_tx_sched_layers_validate(9)
• ice_tear_down_devlink_rate_tree(9)
• ice_enable_custom_tx(9)
• ice_traverse_tx_tree(9)
• ice_devlink_rate_init_tx_topology(9)
• ice_devlink_rate_clear_tx_topology(9)
• ice_set_object_tx_share(9)
• ice_set_object_tx_max(9)
• ice_set_object_tx_priority(9)
• ice_set_object_tx_weight(9)
• ice_get_pi_from_dev_rate(9)
• ice_devlink_reinit_up(9)
• ice_devlink_reload_up(9)
• ice_devlink_local_fwd_mode_to_str(9)
• ice_devlink_local_fwd_str_to_mode(9)
• ice_devlink_local_fwd_get(9)
• ice_devlink_local_fwd_set(9)
• ice_devlink_local_fwd_validate(9)
• ice_allocate_sf(9)
• ice_devlink_register(9)
• ice_devlink_unregister(9)
• ice_devlink_nvm_snapshot(9)
• ice_devlink_nvm_read(9)
• ice_devlink_devcaps_snapshot(9)
• ice_devlink_init_regions(9)
• ice_devlink_destroy_regions(9)

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xoxo, your kernel bestie 💜 — this page's source/version footer is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... and the date is October 2026. byeee 🫶 slay