sba_dump_sg(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the sba_dump_sg(9) manual page from the Kernel API Manual — manual name folded in near the top, just like you asked. sba_dump_sg is giving debugging only - print Scatter-Gather list, and honestly? obsessed. That's the whole function, periodt.

debugging only, bestie — that's the tag, no cap. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the synopsis is this exact signature, character-for-character, fr fr:

void sba_dump_sg (struct ioc *ioc , struct scatterlist *startsg , int nents );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ioc — the IO MMU structure which owns the pdir we are interested in.
• startsg — the head of the SG list.
• nents — the number of entries in SG list.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

it prints the SG list so we can verify it's correct by hand. yes, by hand — eyeballs and everything, fr fr. it's lowkey just a print-and-check moment, iykyk. slay, manual verification.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file: ./drivers/parisc/sba_iommu.c

the whole function bestie squad is here:

• sba_dump_ranges(9)
• sba_dump_tlb(9)
• sba_dump_pdir_entry(9)
• sba_check_pdir(9)
• sba_search_bitmap(9)
• sba_alloc_range(9)
• sba_free_range(9)
• sba_io_pdir_entry(9)
• sba_mark_invalid(9)
• sba_dma_supported(9)
• sba_map_single(9)
• sba_unmap_phys(9)
• sba_alloc(9)
• sba_free(9)
• sba_map_sg(9)
• sba_unmap_sg(9)
• sba_get_iommu(9)
• sba_directed_lmmio(9)
• sba_distributed_lmmio(9)

this cutie's source/version is ./drivers/parisc, and the date is October 2026. byeee bestie, go verify that SG list by hand 💅🫶✨