ice_parser_profile_init(9)

💅 ice_parser_profile_init — NAME ✨

okay so ice_parser_profile_init(9) is literally the glow-up function that initializes a FXP profile based on parser result. that's it, that's the vibe. it's from the Kernel API Manual bestie, we're in the kernel trenches today 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ice_parser_profile_init (struct ice_parser_result *rslt , const u8
*pkt_buf , const u8 *msk_buf , int buf_len , enum ice_block blk , struct
ice_parser_profile *prof );

no cap, six whole parameters. she's high-maintenance but she delivers 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• rslt — a instance of a parser result. it's giving "receipts from the parser", we read from this ✨
• pkt_buf — packet data buffer. the actual packet tea 🍓
• msk_buf — packet mask buffer. the "which bits actually matter" bestie 🌸
• buf_len — packet length. how much packet we're working with, fr fr
• blk — FXP pipeline stage. which stage of the pipeline we're doing the whole thing for 👑
• prof — input/output parameter to save the profile. she's both directions, main character energy, we read her AND write to her 😭

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

0 on success or errno on failure. zero is the slay outcome, anything else is a vibe check that failed 💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_parser.c — that's the source, iykyk 🌈

and literally the entire friend group, in the original order, so nobody gets left out of the group chat:

• ice_parser_sect_item_get(9), ice_parser_create_table(9), ice_imem_dump(9), ice_imem_bm_init(9), ice_imem_bkb_init(9), ice_imem_npkb_init(9), ice_imem_pgkb_init(9), ice_imem_alu_init(9), ice_imem_parse_item(9), ice_imem_table_get(9), ice_metainit_dump(9), ice_metainit_parse_item(9), ice_metainit_table_get(9), ice_bst_tcam_search(9)
• ice_pg_cam_dump(9), ice_pg_nm_cam_dump(9), ice_pg_cam_action_init(9), ice_pg_nm_cam_key_init(9), ice_pg_cam_key_init(9), ice_pg_cam_parse_item(9), ice_pg_sp_cam_parse_item(9), ice_pg_nm_cam_parse_item(9), ice_pg_nm_sp_cam_parse_item(9), ice_pg_cam_table_get(9), ice_pg_sp_cam_table_get(9), ice_pg_nm_cam_table_get(9), ice_pg_nm_sp_cam_table_get(9), ice_pg_cam_match(9), ice_pg_nm_cam_match(9)
• ice_bst_tcam_dump(9), ice_bst_alu_init(9), ice_bst_pgkb_init(9), ice_bst_npkb_init(9), ice_bst_parse_item(9), ice_bst_tcam_table_get(9), ice_bst_lbl_table_get(9), ice_bst_tcam_match(9)
• ice_ptype_mk_tcam_dump(9), ice_ptype_mk_tcam_table_get(9), ice_ptype_mk_tcam_match(9)
• ice_mk_grp_dump(9), ice_mk_grp_table_get(9), ice_proto_grp_dump(9), ice_proto_off_parse(9), ice_proto_grp_parse_item(9), ice_proto_grp_table_get(9)
• ice_flg_rd_dump(9), ice_flg_rd_parse_item(9), ice_flg_rd_table_get(9), ice_flg_redirect(9)
• ice_xlt_kb_dump(9), ice_kb_entry_init(9), ice_parse_kb_data(9), ice_xlt_kb_get_sw(9), ice_xlt_kb_get_acl(9), ice_xlt_kb_get_fd(9), ice_xlt_kb_get_rss(9), ice_xlt_kb_flag_get(9)
• ice_parser_create(9), ice_parser_destroy(9), ice_parser_run(9), ice_parser_result_dump(9), ice_parser_dvm_set(9), ice_parser_vxlan_tunnel_set(9), ice_parser_geneve_tunnel_set(9), ice_parser_ecpri_tunnel_set(9), ice_nearest_proto_id(9), ice_parser_profile_dump(9)

honest note bestie: every single one of those refs is a real one, i did not drop a single (9) 🫶

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that's the whole page!! now go init that profile and slay ✨

mwah, this one came out of ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026 — see u in the next manpage, bestie 💖