xdr_align_size(9)

✨ xdr_align_size(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual corner of the group chat 🫶 today’s main character is xdr_align_size(9), and it is lowkey iconic for doing one tiny job extremely well 🎀

🎀 NAME 🎀

xdr_align_size — Calculate padded size of an object ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

literally the whole thing, no cap:

size_t xdr_align_size (size_t n );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• n — Size of an object being XDR encoded (in bytes) 🫶 that’s the input, bestie.

🦋 RETURN 🦋

You get back the Size (in bytes) of the object including xdr padding 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h — go peek, iykyk 👑

and the whole iconic squad:

• xdr_set_scratch_buffer(9)
• xdr_set_scratch_folio(9)
• xdr_reset_scratch_buffer(9)
• xdr_commit_encode(9)
• xdr_stream_remaining(9)
• xdr_pad_size(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_item_present(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_item_absent(9)
• xdr_encode_bool(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_bool(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_u32(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_be32(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_u64(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_opaque_inline(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_opaque_fixed(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_opaque(9)
• xdr_stream_encode_uint32_array(9)
• xdr_item_is_absent(9)
• xdr_item_is_present(9)
• xdr_stream_decode_bool(9)
• xdr_stream_decode_u32(9)
• xdr_stream_decode_be32(9)
• xdr_stream_decode_u64(9)
• xdr_stream_decode_opaque_fixed(9)
• xdr_stream_decode_opaque_inline(9)
• xdr_stream_decode_uint32_array(9)

cute sign-off: source/version ./include/linux/sunrpc 💜 date October 2026 💜 page xdr_align_size(9) — byeee bestie, slay your XDR padding 💅✨