ioat_free_chan_resources(9)

🧚 ioat_free_chan_resources — bestie, it's cleanup time 💅

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and today's main character is ioat_free_chan_resources ✨ she's the one who shows up at the end of the party and makes sure everything gets tidied away. no crumbs left, no stray descriptors, nothing. periodt.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ioat_free_chan_resources — release all the descriptors 🎀

like, all of them. every last one. she does not do partial cleanups, she does not do "eh, good enough." she frees the descriptors and she goes home. iconic.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void ioat_free_chan_resources (struct dma_chan *c );

yep that's the whole signature, no cap. returns void so there's literally nothing to check afterward — she just does it 💜

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• c — the channel to be cleaned 🧹✨ this is the struct dma_chan * you're handing over, and she's gonna clean it. hand her the channel, she handles the rest. that's the vibe check and it passed.

ngl this is a very short argument list and honestly? slay. sometimes one parameter is all you need, bestie 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• the kernel file ./drivers/dma/ioat/init.c 📂 (yes, that's where all the lore lives, iykyk)
• ioat_dma_self_test(9) ⭐
• ioat_dma_setup_interrupts(9) 🌈
• ioat_enumerate_channels(9) 👑

go read those too, they're fr fr part of the same friend group 💀💅

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👑 a lil sign-off 👑

so that's the whole page, bestie — short, sweet, and absolutely ate. this one comes to you from ./drivers/dma/ioat (that's the source, keep it in your notes 📝), out of the Kernel API Manual, dated October 2026 🗓️💖 mwah, go free those descriptors responsibly 🧚✨