vport_from_priv(9)

okay bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for vport_from_priv(9), and it’s literally about finding your fave vport from a private-data pointer. no cap ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

vport_from_priv — lookup vport from private data pointer. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct vport * vport_from_priv (void *priv );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• priv — start of the private data area. that’s the vibe 🫶

🦋 RETURN 🦋

A reference to a vport structure that contains priv. slay, that’s the whole return value 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so sometimes it’s useful to translate from a pointer to the private data area over to the vport — like when the private data pointer is the result of a hash table lookup. iconic use case, honestly 🔥

priv must point to the start of the private data area. periodt. no shortcuts 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./net/openvswitch/vport.h
• struct vport_portids(9)
• struct vport(9)
• struct vport_parms(9)
• struct vport_ops(9)
• struct vport_upcall_stats_percpu(9)
• vport_priv(9)

go give these besties a read, iykyk 👑

mwah 💋 this cutie came from ./net/openvswitch, dated October 2026, and it’s literally vport_from_priv(9). periodt 🫶🎀