smi_data_buf_realloc(9)

okay bestie, welcome to smi_data_buf_realloc(9) from the Kernel API Manual 💅 — this page is short, iconic, and here to tell you about growing an SMI data buffer if needed. That's the whole vibe.

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so the name is smi_data_buf_realloc — and its whole job is literally grow SMI data buffer if needed. No extra lore in this section, bestie. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int smi_data_buf_realloc (unsigned long size );

that's the signature, character for character — don't come for me about the spacing, it's serving original-source realness 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• size — the page literally says -- undescribed --, so bestie, I am not making up a secret meaning for this one. In the synopsis it's an unsigned long, and that's what we know. 🙈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the cross-reference section is giving linked-list energy, so here's every single one:

• Kernel file ./drivers/platform/x86/dell/dcdbas.c
• smi_data_buf_free(9)
• dcdbas_smi_request(9)
• smi_request_store(9)
• host_control_smi(9)
• dcdbas_host_control(9)
• dcdbas_reboot_notify(9)
• dcdbas_init(9)
• dcdbas_exit(9)

and that's the whole page, bestie — short, sweet, and fully factual. sign-off cuteness: source/version is ./drivers/platform/x86/dell, dated October 2026, for smi_data_buf_realloc(9) — mwah 💖🌈