contexts(9)

✨ NAME ✨

contexts — the glow-up guide to VPU contexts, straight from the Kernel API Manual 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay bestie, picture this: a VPU context is basically its own little main-character bubble ✨ Every single context gets its own private virtual address space, its own job queues, and its own priority — like, fully independent, no sharing, no crossover drama 💅

each context is identified by a unique ID (iykyk, one ID per context, no dupes 💖), and the way a context gets created is — drumroll — on open 🫶 so yeah, you open, you get a context. iconic behavior honestly 🔥

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• Kernel file ./include/uapi/drm/ivpu_accel.h — the source of truth, go look 👀
• DRM_IVPU_CAP_METRIC_STREAMER(9)
• DRM_IVPU_CAP_DMA_MEMORY_RANGE(9)
• DRM_IVPU_CAP_MANAGE_CMDQ(9)
• DRM_IVPU_CAP_BO_CREATE_FROM_USERPTR(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_param(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_bo_create(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_bo_create_from_userptr(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_bo_info(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_submit(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_cmdq_submit(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_bo_wait(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_metric_streamer_start(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_metric_streamer_get_data(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_cmdq_create(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_cmdq_destroy(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_metric_streamer_stop(9)

fr fr that's the whole page, short and slay 💜 this little gem lives under ./include/uapi/drm and it's dated October 2026 — page contexts(9), signing off 🦋💖