STRUCT SSP_TASK_CONTEXT(9)

💅 struct ssp_task_context(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — this is the literal hardware definition page for struct ssp_task_context, and no cap it's a whole vibe. it's the SCU hardware definition for an SSP request. that's it, that's the whole personality 🫶

---

✨ NAME ✨

struct ssp_task_context — This is the SCU hardware definition for an SSP request. yes queen, that's the actual official description and we're not changing a single word of the technical bit 💖

---

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

here's the struct in all its glory, copied exactly because we do not mess with the bitfields, periodt:

struct ssp_task_context {
    u32 reserved00:24;
    u32 frame_type:8;
    u32 reserved01;
    u32 fill_bytes:2;
    u32 reserved02:6;
    u32 changing_data_pointer:1;
    u32 retransmit:1;
    u32 retry_data_frame:1;
    u32 tlr_control:2;
    u32 reserved03:19;
    u32 uiRsvd4;
    u32 target_port_transfer_tag:16;
    u32 tag:16;
    u32 data_offset;
 };

like, look at those :24 and :8 and :2 and :6 and :1 and :1 and :1 and :2 and :19 and :16 and :16 bitfields — the way that the reserved fields are just out here holding space like a good little placeholder 😭 reserved00, reserved01, reserved02, reserved03 and uiRsvd4 (yes, that one has a lowercase i in the middle, that's genuinely how it's spelled, we don't question it 💀). and then the real main characters: frame_type, fill_bytes, changing_data_pointer, retransmit, retry_data_frame, tlr_control, target_port_transfer_tag, tag, and data_offset. iconic. no notes. 👑

---

🎀 Members 🎀

so this section exists in the page and it's literally just sitting there empty — no members are documented under it. it's giving mysterious, it's giving "the rest is left as an exercise", and we're respecting that 🙈

---

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bestie, the cross-references are stacked, go read these next:

• Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/isci/scu_task_context.h (that's where the enum lives, iykyk) 🧚
• enum scu_ssp_task_type(9)
• enum scu_sata_task_type(9)
• struct stp_task_context(9)
• struct smp_task_context(9)
• struct primitive_task_context(9)
• struct scu_sgl_element(9)
• struct scu_sgl_element_pair(9)
• struct transport_snapshot(9)
• struct scu_task_context(9)

like the whole task-context friend group got invited to the function, and honestly? slay. 🌸

---

ngl this page is short but it's load-bearing — it's the hardware definition, so treat those bitfield widths with respect and don't go "fixing" the uiRsvd4 casing. that's canon. 💅

---

and that's the page!! sourced from ./drivers/scsi/isci, dated October 2026, and it's literally about struct ssp_task_context(9) — mwah, bye bestie, go read the header file 💜🔥