STRUCT VDPA_MAP_FILE(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — today’s main character is struct vdpa_map_file(9), and it’s literally the file area for device memory mapping. no cap. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here’s the whole struct, copy-paste sacred, don’t touch the formatting:

struct vdpa_map_file {
    struct file *file;
    u64 offset;
 };

🦋 Members 🦋

• file — this one is the vma->vm_file for the mapping, periodt. 💅
• offset — the mapping offset in the vm_file, iykyk. ✨

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

bestie, go read these too — they’re all in the kernel file ./include/linux/vdpa.h:

• struct vdpa_callback(9)
• struct vdpa_notification_area(9)
• struct vdpa_vq_state_split(9)
• struct vdpa_vq_state_packed(9)
• struct vdpa_device(9)
• struct vdpa_iova_range(9)
• struct vdpa_config_ops(9)
• vdpa_alloc_device(9)
• struct vdpa_driver(9)
• struct vdpa_mgmtdev_ops(9)
• struct vdpa_mgmt_dev(9)

and that’s the whole vibe 💜 this page comes from the ./include/linux source tree, dated October 2026, and the footer is literally struct vdpa_map_file(9) — bye bestie, go map some device memory responsibly 🫶🔥