versal_ipi_setup(9)

💅 versal_ipi_setup(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual and today's main character is versal_ipi_setup. no cap, this one's lowkey niche but highkey important — it's the function that gets your IPIs all set up so that Buffered and Bufferless IPIs can coexist in the same house without, like, fighting. mixed usage, babes. coexistence. it's giving ✨merged household✨.

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✨ NAME ✨

versal_ipi_setup — Set up IPIs to support mixed usage of Buffered and Bufferless IPIs.

like literally, that's the whole job. she sets things up so both flavours of IPI can live together, periodt. 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int versal_ipi_setup (struct zynqmp_ipi_mbox *ipi_mbox , struct
device_node *node );

that's it, that's the whole signature 💖 (yes the spacing is a little chaotic, she's ✨quirky✨, we stan anyway)

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• ipi_mbox — pointer to the IPI mailbox private data structure. iykyk — this is her lil private stash of mailbox data 🎀
• node — the IPI mailbox device node. the device-tree node, bestie, the whole vibe check of "which mailbox am I even talking to" 💀

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🎯 RETURN 🎯

• 0 for success 🎉 (slay, it worked)
• a negative value for failure 😭 (not slay, something went sideways — ngl, don't ignore the negative, it's literally telling you something's wrong)

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this list is LONG, but every single one is here, don't come for me 🙈

• Kernel file ./drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c — the actual source, go read her, she's iconic 👑
• struct zynqmp_ipi_mchan(9)
• struct zynqmp_ipi_mbox(9)
• struct zynqmp_ipi_pdata(9)
• zynqmp_ipi_interrupt(9)
• zynqmp_ipi_peek_data(9)
• zynqmp_ipi_last_tx_done(9)
• zynqmp_ipi_send_data(9)
• zynqmp_ipi_startup(9)
• zynqmp_ipi_shutdown(9)
• zynqmp_ipi_of_xlate(9)
• zynqmp_ipi_mbox_get_buf_res(9)
• zynqmp_ipi_mbox_dev_release(9)
• zynqmp_ipi_mbox_probe(9)
• zynqmp_ipi_setup(9)
• zynqmp_ipi_free_mboxes(9)

fr fr, that's the whole friend group, they all hang out in ./drivers/mailbox 🌈

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