nfp_cpp_area_release(9)

💅 nfp_cpp_area_release(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie

okay so real talk, this one's a little baby function but it's important, so pay attention. it lives in the Kernel API Manual (section 9, kernel messages, iykyk) and its whole personality is: "girl, you're done here, let go."

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✨ NAME ✨

nfp_cpp_area_release — release a locked down CPP area

like, un-clutch it. release the grip. let it breathe. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void nfp_cpp_area_release (struct nfp_cpp_area *area );

no return value, she just does it and leaves. main character energy fr fr.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• area — the CPP area handle 💅 that's it, that's the whole argument. it's the handle to the area you're about to release, and yes you need it, don't lose it.

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Releases a previously locked down CPP area.

that's the whole thing, bestie — it's the "you may now exit the ride" of CPP areas. you locked it down earlier (with nfp_cpp_area_acquire or nfp_cpp_area_acquire_nonblocking, if we're being specific), and now you're releasing it. no cap, that's it. ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole friend group, literally all of them, in the order they showed up to the party:

• struct nfp_cpp(9)
• nfp_cpp_free(9)
• nfp_cpp_model(9)
• nfp_cpp_interface(9)
• nfp_cpp_serial(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_alloc_with_name(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_alloc(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_alloc_acquire(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_free(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_acquire(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_acquire_nonblocking(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_release_free(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_read(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_write(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_size(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_name(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_priv(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_cpp(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_resource(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_phys(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_iomem(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_readl(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_writel(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_readq(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_writeq(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_fill(9)
• nfp_cpp_area_cache_add(9)
• nfp_cpp_read(9)
• nfp_cpp_write(9)
• nfp_xpb_readl(9)
• nfp_xpb_writel(9)
• nfp_xpb_writelm(9)
• nfp_cpp_from_operations(9)
• nfp_cpp_priv(9)
• nfp_cpp_device(9)
• nfp_cpp_explicit_acquire(9)
• nfp_cpp_explicit_set_target(9)
• nfp_cpp_explicit_set_data(9)
• nfp_cpp_explicit_set_signal(9)
• nfp_cpp_explicit_set_posted(9)
• nfp_cpp_explicit_put(9)
• nfp_cpp_explicit_do(9)
• nfp_cpp_explicit_get(9)
• nfp_cpp_explicit_release(9)
• nfp_cpp_explicit_cpp(9)
• nfp_cpp_explicit_priv(9)

and also the actual kernel file it lives in, in case you wanna read the source like the icon you are:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_cppcore.c

ok lowkey important: the source path in the footer gets truncated to ./drivers/net/ethernet/netrono... because man pages are dramatic and love a cliffhanger. the real full path is above, don't come for me. 🙈

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and that's the page!! short, sweet, slays, releases the area, leaves. 💜

sign-off time 🎀 — this little beauty is dated October 2026, and the source line got cutely mangled down to ./drivers/net/ethernet/netrono... (that's the nfp_cppcore.c file up there in SEE ALSO, and you know it). stay hydrated, release your areas, and don't leak. mwah. 💅✨