xe_sriov_pf_...gfs_register(9)

πŸ“¦ version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

πŸ’… xe_sriov_pf_...gfs_register(9) πŸ’…

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ β€” yes that's the manual name, and yes this page lives in it. this one's about xe_sriov_pf_debugfs_register, which sounds like a lot but it's literally just "make a debugfs folder for SR-IOV stuff" πŸŽ€


✨ NAME ✨

xe_sriov_pf_debugfs_register β€” register PF debugfs attributes. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🫢


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void xe_sriov_pf_debugfs_register (struct xe_device *xe , struct dentry
*root );

no return value, she just does the thing and leaves πŸ’…


✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • xe β€” the xe_device. the main character of this whole operation πŸ‘‘
  • root β€” the root dentry. like, the top-level folder she's gonna hang out in πŸ¦‹

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what she does is create a separate directory β€” its own little apartment 🏠 β€” and that directory is gonna contain all the SR-IOV related files.

and not just dumped in a pile, nope, she organizes them per each SR-IOV function. so you get:

  • PF
  • VF1
  • VF2
  • ...
  • VFn

one folder per function, extremely organized, very demure, very mindful πŸ§šβ€β™€οΈβœ¨ like she alphabetized the group chat. we love a tidy filesystem.


🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_sriov_pf_debugfs.c β€” go read it, iykyk πŸ’–


ngl if you're poking at SR-IOV debugfs stuff, this is the function that sets up your directory tree. she's the reason the files have somewhere to live πŸ“

and that's the page! source/version is ./drivers/gpu/drm/xe and the date on this one is October 2026 πŸŽ€ mwah, go forth and debug, bestie πŸ’œπŸ”₯

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