tools/include/uapi/linux/seg6.h

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

tools/include/uapi/linux/seg6.h

Extension

.h

Size

1178 bytes

Lines

56

Domain

Support Tooling And Documentation

Bucket

tools

Inferred role

Support Tooling And Documentation: implementation source

Status

source implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

• Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
• Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.

Dependency Surface

• linux/types.h
• linux/in6.h

Detected Declarations

• struct ipv6_sr_hdr
• struct sr6_tlv

Annotated Snippet

struct ipv6_sr_hdr {
	__u8	nexthdr;
	__u8	hdrlen;
	__u8	type;
	__u8	segments_left;
	__u8	first_segment; /* Represents the last_entry field of SRH */
	__u8	flags;
	__u16	tag;

	struct in6_addr segments[];
};

#define SR6_FLAG1_PROTECTED	(1 << 6)
#define SR6_FLAG1_OAM		(1 << 5)
#define SR6_FLAG1_ALERT		(1 << 4)
#define SR6_FLAG1_HMAC		(1 << 3)

#define SR6_TLV_INGRESS		1
#define SR6_TLV_EGRESS		2
#define SR6_TLV_OPAQUE		3
#define SR6_TLV_PADDING		4
#define SR6_TLV_HMAC		5

#define sr_has_hmac(srh) ((srh)->flags & SR6_FLAG1_HMAC)

struct sr6_tlv {
	__u8 type;
	__u8 len;
	__u8 data[];
};

#endif

Annotation

• Immediate include surface: `linux/types.h`, `linux/in6.h`.
• Detected declarations: `struct ipv6_sr_hdr`, `struct sr6_tlv`.
• Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / tools.
• 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.