HIGH-LEVEL PAGE TABLE OPERATIONS(9)

💅 High-level page table operations

okay bestie, welcome to High-level page table operations, a page from the Kernel API Manual (section 9), and honestly? It's giving ✨ index page ✨. There's no big prose essay here — the whole flex is the SEE ALSO list, which is stacked. This is the hub where all the PowerVR MMU page-table lore lives, so if you were looking for the actual write-up, the links below are your main characters. 🫶

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

everything here is a reference to go read next, fr fr. No cap, it's a lot — but we're gonna get through it together. 💖

📁 the kernel file

• ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_mmu.c — the actual source file, the mothership 🚀

🚰 flushing & the big picture

• pvr_mmu_set_flush_flags(9)
• pvr_mmu_flush_request_all(9)
• pvr_mmu_flush_exec(9)
• PowerVR Virtual Memory Handling(9)
• PowerVR Virtual Memory Handling (constants)(9)

🎀 MMU backing pages

• MMU backing pages(9)
• MMU backing pages (constants)(9)
• struct pvr_mmu_backing_page(9)
• pvr_mmu_backing_page_init(9)
• pvr_mmu_backing_page_fini(9)
• pvr_mmu_backing_page_sync(9)

🦋 raw page tables

• Raw page tables(9)
• struct pvr_page_table_l2_entry_raw(9)
• pvr_page_table_l2_entry_raw_set(9)
• struct pvr_page_table_l1_entry_raw(9)
• pvr_page_table_l1_entry_raw_set(9)
• struct pvr_page_table_l0_entry_raw(9)
• struct pvr_page_flags_raw(9)
• pvr_page_table_l0_entry_raw_set(9)
• pvr_page_flags_raw_create(9)
• struct pvr_page_table_l2_raw(9)
• struct pvr_page_table_l1_raw(9)
• struct pvr_page_table_l0_raw(9)

🪞 mirror page tables

• Mirror page tables(9)

level 2, the icon 👑

• struct pvr_page_table_l2(9)
• pvr_page_table_l2_init(9)
• pvr_page_table_l2_fini(9)
• pvr_page_table_l2_sync(9)
• pvr_page_table_l2_get_raw(9)
• pvr_page_table_l2_get_entry_raw(9)
• pvr_page_table_l2_entry_is_valid(9)

level 1, she ate 💅

• struct pvr_page_table_l1(9)
• pvr_page_table_l1_init(9)
• pvr_page_table_l1_free(9)
• pvr_page_table_l1_sync(9)
• pvr_page_table_l1_get_raw(9)
• pvr_page_table_l1_get_entry_raw(9)
• pvr_page_table_l1_entry_is_valid(9)

level 0, the littlest one 🍓

• struct pvr_page_table_l0(9)
• pvr_page_table_l0_init(9)
• pvr_page_table_l0_free(9)
• pvr_page_table_l0_sync(9)
• pvr_page_table_l0_get_raw(9)
• pvr_page_table_l0_get_entry_raw(9)
• pvr_page_table_l0_entry_is_valid(9)

🧚 contexts & pointers

• struct pvr_mmu_context(9)
• struct pvr_page_table_ptr(9)
• struct pvr_mmu_op_context(9)

🔥 inserting & removing

• pvr_page_table_l2_insert(9)
• pvr_page_table_l2_remove(9)
• pvr_page_table_l1_insert(9)
• pvr_page_table_l1_remove(9)
• pvr_page_table_l0_insert(9)
• pvr_page_table_l0_remove(9)

🌈 index utilities

• Page table index utilities(9)
• pvr_page_table_l2_idx(9)
• pvr_page_table_l1_idx(9)
• pvr_page_table_l0_idx(9)
• pvr_page_table_l1_get_or_insert(9)
• pvr_page_table_l0_get_or_insert(9)

👑 context lifecycle & table plumbing

• pvr_mmu_context_create(9)
• pvr_mmu_context_destroy(9)
• pvr_mmu_get_root_table_dma_addr(9)
• pvr_page_table_l1_alloc(9)
• pvr_page_table_l0_alloc(9)
• pvr_mmu_op_context_require_sync(9)
• pvr_mmu_op_context_sync_manual(9)
• pvr_mmu_op_context_sync_partial(9)
• pvr_mmu_op_context_sync(9)
• pvr_mmu_op_context_load_tables(9)
• pvr_mmu_op_context_set_curr_page(9)
• pvr_mmu_op_context_next_page(9)

⭐ single page operations

• Single page operations(9)
• pvr_page_create(9)
• pvr_page_destroy(9)
• pvr_mmu_op_context_destroy(9)
• pvr_mmu_op_context_create(9)
• pvr_mmu_op_context_unmap_curr_page(9)
• pvr_mmu_unmap(9)
• pvr_mmu_map_sgl(9)
• pvr_mmu_map(9)

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ngl bestie, that's the whole page — it's a link-farm and we respect her for it. Go click through, ily, mwah 💋

mwah, that's a wrap 🎀 — source file lives at ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination, this edition dropped October 2026, and the manual is High-level page table operations(9). periodt. 💜