net/9p/protocol.h

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

net/9p/protocol.h

Extension

.h

Size

755 bytes

Lines

20

Domain

Networking Core

Bucket

Sockets, Protocols, Packet Path, And Network Policy

Inferred role

Networking Core: implementation source

Status

source implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

Networking stack implementation surface: socket APIs, protocol dispatch, packet flow, routing, filtering, and network namespaces.

• Networking stack implementation surface: socket APIs, protocol dispatch, packet flow, routing, filtering, and network namespaces.
• Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.

Dependency Surface

• No C-style include directives detected by the generator.

Detected Declarations

• No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

size_t p9_msg_buf_size(struct p9_client *c, enum p9_msg_t type,
			const char *fmt, va_list ap);
int p9pdu_vwritef(struct p9_fcall *pdu, int proto_version, const char *fmt,
		  va_list ap);
int p9pdu_readf(struct p9_fcall *pdu, int proto_version, const char *fmt, ...);
int p9pdu_prepare(struct p9_fcall *pdu, int16_t tag, int8_t type);
int p9pdu_finalize(struct p9_client *clnt, struct p9_fcall *pdu);
void p9pdu_reset(struct p9_fcall *pdu);
size_t pdu_read(struct p9_fcall *pdu, void *data, size_t size);

Annotation

• Atlas domain: Networking Core / Sockets, Protocols, Packet Path, And Network Policy.
• Implementation status: source implementation candidate.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.