dma_fence_array_alloc(9)

✨ dma_fence_array_alloc(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💅 this one's from dma_fence_array_alloc(9) and it's lowkey one of the shorter pages, so we can absolutely devour it together 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

dma_fence_array_alloc — allocate a custom fence array ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct dma_fence_array * dma_fence_array_alloc (int num_fences );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• num_fences [in] — the number of fences to add in the array. that's it, that's the whole input, she's simple and she knows it 💖

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Returns the dma fence array on success, and NULL on failure. no cap, that's literally the whole behaviour 😭 so like, always vibe check your return value before you go using it, bestie 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-array.c 💫
• dma_fence_array_init(9)
• dma_fence_array_create(9)
• dma_fence_match_context(9)

and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 🌈 fr fr, it's giving "short but iconic" 💜

ngl the original footer is doing main character energy too: it's from ./drivers/dma-buf, dated October 2026, and it's dma_fence_array_alloc(9) all the way down 🎀 mwah 💅