lpfc_idiag_queacc_read(9)

πŸ“¦ version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

πŸ’… lpfc_idiag_queacc_read πŸ’…

okay so real talk, this is a page out of the Kernel API Manual, bestie β€” section 9, kernel internals territory. No cap, it's niche but it's iconic.


🌸 NAME 🌸

lpfc_idiag_queacc_read β€” the idiag debugfs read for a port queue, literally that's the whole gig πŸ’–


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ssize_t lpfc_idiag_queacc_read (struct file *file , char __user *buf ,
       size_t nbytes , loff_t *ppos );

πŸŽ€ ARGUMENTS πŸŽ€

  • file β€” the file pointer you're reading from. your entry point, your main character 🫢
  • buf β€” the buffer the data gets copied into. it's where the tea lands πŸ’…
  • nbytes β€” how many bytes you're asking for.
  • ppos β€” where in the file the read starts from. the vibe check of "where were we" ⭐

πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

So this routine reads data out of the phba device queue memory β€” following whatever the idiag command says β€” and copies it over to the user buf. πŸ“₯

And depending on how the queue dump read command got set up, it does one of two things:

  • a single queue entry read, or
  • browsing through all the entries of the queue 🌈

like, it's giving "one lil peek" vs "full scroll," iykyk.


πŸ”₯ RETURN πŸ”₯

This function returns the amount of data that was actually read β€” and lowkey important: that can be less than nbytes if it hit the end of the file 😭 β€” or a negative error value if things went sideways. keep an eye on it, fr fr.


πŸ‘‘ SEE ALSO πŸ‘‘

Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c


and that's the whole page, bestie πŸ’–βœ¨πŸŽ€πŸ¦‹πŸŒΈπŸ’…πŸ«Ά

oh and the lil sign-off: this one lives in ./drivers/scsi/lpfc, dated October 2026, and it's filed under lpfc_idiag_queacc_read(9) β€” periodt πŸ’œ

πŸ“¦ where this page comes from