DRM_FORMAT_...PREALLOCATED(9)

💅 DRM_FORMAT_...PREALLOCATED 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — this is the page for DRM_FORMAT_CONV_STATE_INIT_PREALLOCATED, and yes we're folding the whole title in right here at the top so you never have to wonder what you're looking at 🫶

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🎀 NAME 🎀

DRM_FORMAT_CONV_STATE_INIT_PREALLOCATED — it's the initializer for struct drm_format_conv_state, no cap 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

DRM_FORMAT_CONV_STATE_INIT_PREALLOCATED (_mem , _size );

that's it, that's the whole vibe 🔥

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• _mem — the preallocated memory area, like the venue is already booked bestie 🎀
• _size — the number of bytes in _mem, because we gotta know how much room we're working with ⭐

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so what this does is it initializes an instance of struct drm_format_conv_state to use preallocated storage ✨ like it's giving "I brought my own snacks" energy.

and listen, the caller is responsible for releasing the provided memory range 👑 — that's on you, bestie, not on this macro. it's not gonna clean up after you, so don't leave it hanging 🙈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./include/drm/drm_format_helper.h
• struct drm_format_conv_state(9)
• DRM_FORMAT_CONV_STATE_INIT(9)

go read those too, iykyk 💜

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okay that's the whole page bestie, go forth and preallocate responsibly 🌈 this gem comes to you straight out of ./include/drm, dated October 2026, from the Kernel API Manual — mwah, ily, bye 🍓💖✨