ice_allocate_sf(9)

💅 ice_allocate_sf(9) — like, the SF allocator, bestie ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual and it's literally about one tiny function that does one tiny job, and honestly? she ate. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_allocate_sf — allocate a devlink and hand back the SF structure pointer, no cap 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct ice_sf_priv * ice_allocate_sf (struct device *dev , struct ice_pf
*pf );

that's the whole signature, copy it exactly bestie, don't get creative with it 😭

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the device you're allocating for. that's her, that's the one 💅
• pf — pointer to the PF structure. yes it's a pointer. yes you need it. periodt.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Allocate a devlink instance for SF.

that's it. that's the whole description. short and iconic, main character energy, she doesn't need to over-explain herself 🌈

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

You get back an ice_sf_priv pointer to the allocated memory 💖 — or, if things went sideways, an ERR_PTR in case of error 😭 so like, vibe check your return value before you dereference it, fr fr.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the actual source, living right here in the kernel tree:

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

and the whole friend group of related pages, all of them, in order, because we don't skip anyone in this house:

• 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_pf(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)

like, thirty-five whole besties. iykyk 💀💜

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k bye, this page came from the path that starts ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... and it's dated October 2026 — mwah, slay, see u in the group chat 🧚💅🎀