rvu_exact_config_secret_key(9)

💅 rvu_exact_config_secret_key — a kernel manual, but make it group chat

okay so real talk, bestie: this is the <pink>rvu_exact_config_secret_key</pink> page from the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? it's a little baby page. short, sweet, to the point. it's giving "i have one job and i do it." iconic behavior honestly 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

rvu_exact_config_secret_key — configure the secret key. that's it. that's the whole plot. 🔑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void rvu_exact_config_secret_key (struct rvu *rvu );

literally one function, one argument, returns nothing (void, so like, no tea no shade, it just does the thing and leaves). the way that this signature is so unbothered 😭

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• rvu — the resource virtualization unit. yes bestie, that's the whole description in the original and i'm not gonna invent lore for you ngl, but picture it as the main character struct that this whole subsystem revolves around 👑 lowkey the rvu is carrying the entire plot.

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

okay so THIS is where the page pops off. the see-also list is long. like, long long. grab a snack 🍓

• the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc_hash.c — that's where the actual source lives, go read it, i believe in you 🫶
• rvu_exact_prepare_mdata(9)
• rvu_exact_calculate_hash(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_alloc_mem_table_entry(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_free_id(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_alloc_id(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_alloc_cam_table_entry(9)
• rvu_exact_prepare_table_entry(9)
• rvu_exact_config_search_key(9)
• rvu_exact_config_result_ctrl(9)
• rvu_exact_config_table_mask(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_get_max_entries(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_has_match_table(9)
• __rvu_npc_exact_find_entry_by_seq_id(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_add_to_list(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_mem_table_write(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_cam_table_write(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_dealloc_table_entry(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_alloc_table_entry(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_save_drop_rule_chan_and_mask(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_calc_drop_rule_chan_and_mask(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_drop_rule_to_pcifunc(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_get_drop_rule_info(9)
• __rvu_npc_exact_cmd_rules_cnt_update(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_del_table_entry_by_id(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_add_table_entry(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_update_table_entry(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_promisc_disable(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_promisc_enable(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_mac_addr_reset(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_mac_addr_update(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_mac_addr_add(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_mac_addr_del(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_mac_addr_set(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_can_disable_feature(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_disable_feature(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_reset(9)
• rvu_npc_exact_init(9)

fr fr, copy-paste that list into your notes and just work through it, that's the whole octeontx2 exact-match lore rabbit hole and honestly it's a vibe 🌈

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🧚 sign-off 🧚

kisses bestie, that's the whole page 💜 the source path got truncated in the original footer to ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell..., the date stamp is October 2026, and the manual entry is rvu_exact_config_secret_key(9) — now go configure that secret key, you absolute icon ⭐🔥💅