amdgpu_gart_init(9)

💅 amdgpu_gart_init — a Kernel API Manual moment

okay bestie, welcome to amdgpu_gart_init(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual ✨ and no cap, this one is a whole lil' function that gets the gart driver info ready to slay 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

amdgpu_gart_init — init the driver info for managing the gart 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int amdgpu_gart_init (struct amdgpu_device *adev );

it's giving "one argument, one job" and honestly? iconic 👑

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• adev — amdgpu_device pointer. that's the whole vibe, she's just a pointer to your amdgpu_device 💖

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea, bestie ☕ — amdgpu_gart_init allocates the dummy page and inits the gart driver info, and yes, that happens for all asics 🫡 like, every single one, no exceptions, periodt.

returns 0 for success, and an error for failure 😭 so fr fr, check your return value, don't just assume she ate 🔥

ngl this is the setup step — the dummy page gets allocated and the driver info gets initialized. keep it moving, nothing else to see here 💀

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🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

kernel file, bestie, go read it 👀

• ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_gart.c

and the whole friend group 🫶✨

• amdgpu_gart_dummy_page_init(9)
• amdgpu_gart_dummy_page_fini(9)
• amdgpu_gart_table_ram_alloc(9)
• amdgpu_gart_table_ram_free(9)
• amdgpu_gart_table_vram_alloc(9)
• amdgpu_gart_table_vram_free(9)
• amdgpu_gart_unbind(9)
• amdgpu_gart_map(9)
• amdgpu_gart_map_vram_range(9)
• amdgpu_gart_map_gfx9_mqd(9)
• amdgpu_gart_bind(9)
• amdgpu_gart_invalidate_tlb(9)

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🌈 okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this lil' queen lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu, dated October 2026, and she's part of the Kernel API Manual — stan her, cite her, see also her 🎀💜