qi_cache_free(9)

💖 qi_cache_free 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for qi_cache_free — yes, it's giving kernel cleanup realness, and we're gonna get through it together. 🫶✨

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✨ NAME ✨

qi_cache_free — frees buffers allocated from CAAM-QI cache</p>. That's the whole gig, no cap. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void qi_cache_free (void *obj );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• obj — the object that was previously allocated using qi_cache_alloc. Basically: the thing you got from qi_cache_alloc earlier, now ready for its cleanup moment. 🌸

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So this gets invoked when a user of the CAAM-QI (i.e. caamalg-qi) no longer needs the buffer that was previously allocated by a qi_cache_alloc call. It's the "we're done with this buffer now" call. 🧚

🚨 No checking is being done — like, none. The call is a passthrough call to kmem_cache_free(...). Periodt. 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file: ./drivers/crypto/caam/qi.h

Also go peek at these icons: caam_drv_ctx_init(9), caam_qi_enqueue(9), caam_drv_ctx_busy(9), caam_drv_ctx_update(9), caam_drv_ctx_rel(9), and qi_cache_alloc(9). 👑

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xoxo, your kernel bestie 💋 — this page comes from ./drivers/crypto/caam and is dated October 2026. 🌈⭐