mei_txe_aliveness_poll(9)

💅 mei_txe_aliveness_poll(9) — like, the kernel API manual, section 9 bestie ✨

okay so first things first, this is a section 9 page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's called mei_txe_aliveness_poll. That's the whole title situation, you're welcome 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

mei_txe_aliveness_poll — literally just waits for aliveness to settle 🧚

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int mei_txe_aliveness_poll (struct mei_device *dev , u32 expected );

that's it. that's the whole vibe check 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the device structure. the main character, honestly 👑
• expected — the expected aliveness value. like, what number are we looking for, bestie 🔥

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So the way this works is it polls for HICR_HOST_ALIVENESS_RESP.ALIVENESS_RESP to be set. That's it. It just sits there checking, waiting for that bit to go off, no cap ⭐

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

• 0 — slay, the expected value was received ✨
• -ETIME — nope, didn't happen. time's up, bestie 😭

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./drivers/misc/mei/hw-txe.c — and like, so many friends of the family, iykyk 💜

• mei_txe_reg_read(9)
• mei_txe_reg_write(9)
• mei_txe_sec_reg_read_silent(9)
• mei_txe_sec_reg_read(9)
• mei_txe_sec_reg_write_silent(9)
• mei_txe_sec_reg_write(9)
• mei_txe_br_reg_read(9)
• mei_txe_br_reg_write(9)
• mei_txe_aliveness_set(9)
• mei_txe_aliveness_req_get(9)
• mei_txe_aliveness_get(9)
• mei_txe_aliveness_wait(9)
• mei_txe_aliveness_set_sync(9)
• mei_txe_pg_in_transition(9)
• mei_txe_pg_is_enabled(9)
• mei_txe_pg_state(9)
• mei_txe_input_ready_interrupt_enable(9)
• mei_txe_input_doorbell_set(9)
• mei_txe_output_ready_set(9)
• mei_txe_is_input_ready(9)
• mei_txe_intr_clear(9)
• mei_txe_intr_disable(9)
• mei_txe_intr_enable(9)
• mei_txe_synchronize_irq(9)
• mei_txe_pending_interrupts(9)
• mei_txe_input_payload_write(9)
• mei_txe_out_data_read(9)
• mei_txe_readiness_set_host_rdy(9)
• mei_txe_readiness_clear(9)
• mei_txe_readiness_get(9)
• mei_txe_readiness_is_sec_rdy(9)
• mei_txe_hw_is_ready(9)
• mei_txe_host_is_ready(9)
• mei_txe_readiness_wait(9)
• mei_txe_fw_status(9)
• mei_txe_hw_config(9)
• mei_txe_write(9)
• mei_txe_hbuf_depth(9)
• mei_txe_hbuf_empty_slots(9)
• mei_txe_count_full_read_slots(9)
• mei_txe_read_hdr(9)
• mei_txe_read(9)
• mei_txe_hw_reset(9)
• mei_txe_hw_start(9)
• mei_txe_check_and_ack_intrs(9)
• mei_txe_irq_quick_handler(9)
• mei_txe_irq_thread_handler(9)
• mei_txe_dev_init(9)

bestie that's 48 cross-references. I counted. do not ask me to count again 💀

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kay so that's the whole page 🌸 this came out of ./drivers/misc/mei and it's dated October 2026 — like, from the future?? iconic behavior honestly 🎀💖 bye bestie!!