amdgpu_fence_process(9)

💖 amdgpu_fence_process(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the kernel API manual for amdgpu_fence_process — it's a lil function in the AMDGPU fence world and honestly it's giving "tiny but crucial" ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

amdgpu_fence_process — check for fence activity 👀

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

bool amdgpu_fence_process (struct amdgpu_ring *ring );

like, it returns a bool. cute. simple. iconic.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ring — pointer to struct amdgpu_ring 💫 that's the one thing you hand it. no cap, that's the whole argument list.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does it actually do, you ask? it checks the current fence value and calculates the last signalled fence value 🔥 then — and this is the main character moment — it wakes the fence queue if the sequence number has increased. the way that sequence number goes up and the queue wakes up?? slay.

it returns true if fence was processed ✅ periodt.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole fence friend group, fr fr 💅 also the source file lives at ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c — go say hi 🫶

• amdgpu_fence_write(9)
• amdgpu_fence_read(9)
• amdgpu_fence_emit(9)
• amdgpu_fence_emit_polling(9)
• amdgpu_fence_schedule_fallback(9)
• amdgpu_fence_fallback(9)
• amdgpu_fence_wait_empty(9)
• amdgpu_fence_wait_polling(9)
• amdgpu_fence_count_emitted(9)
• amdgpu_fence_last_unsignaled_time_us(9)
• amdgpu_fence_update_start_timestamp(9)
• amdgpu_fence_driver_start_ring(9)
• amdgpu_fence_driver_init_ring(9)
• amdgpu_fence_driver_sw_init(9)
• amdgpu_fence_need_ring_interrupt_restore(9)
• amdgpu_fence_driver_hw_fini(9)
• amdgpu_fence_driver_hw_init(9)
• amdgpu_fence_driver_set_error(9)
• amdgpu_fence_driver_force_completion(9)
• amdgpu_ring_set_fence_errors_and_reemit(9)
• amdgpu_fence_enable_signaling(9)
• amdgpu_fence_free(9)
• amdgpu_fence_release(9)

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and that's the vibe check, bestie 💜 this page came from ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu, dated October 2026, and it's literally amdgpu_fence_process(9) — iykyk 🎀✨💅