cik_sdma_ib_test(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 cik_sdma_ib_test 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the cik_sdma_ib_test(9) page — it's a kernel API manual situation, and honestly? it's a little baddie. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

cik_sdma_ib_test — literally just vibing out here testing an IB on the DMA engine 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int cik_sdma_ib_test (struct radeon_device *rdev , struct radeon_ring
*ring );

the way that signature ate, no notes 💅

⭐ ARGUMENTS ⭐

  • rdev — a radeon_device pointer, iykyk 👑
  • ring — the radeon_ring structure that's holding all the ring information, she's the main character here fr fr

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so what she does is test a simple IB in the DMA ring (CIK). that's it, that's the whole gig ✨

returns 0 on success, and an error on failure — so like, check the return value, bestie, don't just assume she slayed 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/cik_sdma.c, plus the whole friend group:

like, the whole roster showed up. obsessed 🫶

okay and for the sign-off: this lil masterpiece lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon, dated October 2026 — she's from the kernel API manual, and she said what she said 💜

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