movn_func(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 movn_func(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment

okay so bestie, welcome to movn_func(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one is short, it's sweet, and it literally cannot fail (we'll get there 🫶).

🎀 NAME 🎀

movn_func — Emulate a MOVZ instruction

no cap, that's what it says, we're not arguing with the docs today 💀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int movn_func (struct pt_regs *regs , u32 ir );

that's the whole vibe check: you hand it two things, it hands you back an int. simple. iconic. 👑

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • regs — Process register set. it's the process's whole register situation, and yeah, this function gets the keys to it 🔑
  • ir — Instruction. the actual instruction itself, coming in hot to get emulated 💫

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Returns 0 since it always succeeds.

that's it. that's the description. it returns 0, because it always succeeds — not "usually", not "when the vibes are right", always 😭💖 main character function behavior fr fr. no error paths, no drama, no <errno> shenanigans. it just slays and returns 0 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./arch/mips/kernel/mips-r2-to-r6-emul.c, plus the whole friend group 👯‍♀️:

like, go read them all, they're all in ./arch/mips/kernel and they're all equally obsessed with emulation 🧚💜

real talk: this page lives at ./arch/mips/kernel, dated October 2026, and it's forever filed under movn_func(9). mwah, bye bestie 💅💖✨
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