ice_free_prof_masks(9)

💅 ice_free_prof_masks(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual one 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to another episode of "Gen Z girl reads the kernel API manual so you don't have to" ✨ this one lives in the Kernel API Manual section 9, and it's called ice_free_prof_masks — say that five times fast, I dare you 🙈

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_free_prof_masks — literally frees all the profile masks for a profile 💖 no cap, that's the whole job. it's giving "cleanup era" 🧹✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ice_free_prof_masks (struct ice_hw *hw , enum ice_block blk , u16
prof_id );

that's it, that's the whole signature 👑 three args, returns an int, moves on with its life 💅

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⭐ ARGUMENTS ⭐

• hw — pointer to the HW struct 🫶 you know her, you love her, she's the hardware.
• blk — the hardware block 🌈 which block? that's for you to know and the enum to tell you.
• prof_id — profile ID 🎀 the specific profile whose masks are getting evicted, periodt.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

okay this is the part where the page goes absolutely feral with cross-references, and I am obsessed 😭 the source file for all of this is right here in the kernel tree:

./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_flex_pipe.c

and then the whole friend group shows up, in exactly this order, no skipping, no merging, no "eh that one's not important" — every single one of these cuties gets named 🫶:

ice_sect_id(9), ice_hw_ptype_ena(9), ice_gen_key_word(9), ice_bits_max_set(9), ice_set_key(9), ice_acquire_change_lock(9), ice_release_change_lock(9), ice_get_open_tunnel_port(9), ice_upd_dvm_boost_entry(9), ice_set_dvm_boost_entries(9), ice_tunnel_idx_to_entry(9), ice_create_tunnel(9), ice_destroy_tunnel(9), ice_find_prot_off(9), ice_ptg_find_ptype(9), ice_ptg_alloc_val(9), ice_ptg_remove_ptype(9), ice_ptg_add_mv_ptype(9), ice_match_prop_lst(9), ice_vsig_find_vsi(9), ice_vsig_alloc_val(9), ice_vsig_alloc(9), ice_find_dup_props_vsig(9), ice_vsig_free(9), ice_vsig_remove_vsi(9), ice_vsig_add_mv_vsi(9), ice_prof_has_mask_idx(9), ice_prof_has_mask(9), ice_find_prof_id_with_mask(9), ice_prof_id_rsrc_type(9), ice_tcam_ent_rsrc_type(9), ice_alloc_tcam_ent(9), ice_free_tcam_ent(9), ice_alloc_prof_id(9), ice_free_prof_id(9), ice_prof_inc_ref(9), ice_write_prof_mask_reg(9), ice_write_prof_mask_enable_res(9), ice_init_prof_masks(9), ice_init_all_prof_masks(9), ice_alloc_prof_mask(9), ice_free_prof_mask(9), ice_shutdown_prof_masks(9), ice_shutdown_all_prof_masks(9), ice_update_prof_masking(9), ice_write_es(9), ice_prof_dec_ref(9), ice_init_sw_xlt1_db(9), ice_init_sw_xlt2_db(9), ice_init_sw_db(9), ice_fill_tbl(9), ice_fill_blk_tbls(9), ice_free_prof_map(9), ice_free_flow_profs(9), ice_free_vsig_tbl(9), ice_free_hw_tbls(9), ice_init_flow_profs(9), ice_clear_hw_tbls(9), ice_init_hw_tbls(9), ice_prof_gen_key(9), ice_tcam_write_entry(9), ice_vsig_get_ref(9), ice_has_prof_vsig(9), ice_prof_bld_es(9), ice_prof_bld_tcam(9), ice_prof_bld_xlt1(9), ice_prof_bld_xlt2(9), ice_upd_prof_hw(9), ice_update_fd_mask(9), ice_update_fd_swap(9), ice_get_ptype_attrib_info(9), ice_add_prof_attrib(9), ice_disable_fd_swap(9), ice_search_prof_id(9), ice_vsig_prof_id_count(9), ice_rel_tcam_idx(9), ice_rem_prof_id(9), ice_rem_vsig(9), ice_rem_prof_id_vsig(9), ice_rem_flow_all(9), ice_rem_prof(9), ice_get_prof(9), ice_get_profs_vsig(9), ice_add_prof_to_lst(9), ice_move_vsi(9), ice_set_tcam_flags(9), ice_rem_chg_tcam_ent(9), ice_prof_tcam_ena_dis(9), ice_ptg_attr_in_use(9), ice_adj_prof_priorities(9), ice_add_prof_id_vsig(9), ice_create_prof_id_vsig(9), ice_create_vsig_from_lst(9), ice_find_prof_vsig(9), ice_add_prof_id_flow(9), ice_flow_assoc_fdir_prof(9), ice_rem_prof_from_list(9), ice_rem_prof_id_flow(9)

like I said. the whole group chat. 💀 but honestly? iconic behavior. each one probably has a story and we respect them all 🫡

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quick vibe check: this page gives you the NAME, the SYNOPSIS, the ARGUMENTS, and the SEE ALSO. no hidden extras, no surprise lore — so don't go making up behavior that isn't on the page, bestie 🙈 iykyk.

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and that's the page!! 🦋 this gem comes from the source tree at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026, in the Kernel API Manual — mwah, a whole masterpiece, ate and left no crumbs 👑💖✨