dma_fence_assert_held(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, this page is dma_fence_assert_held(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally the lockdep assertion that the fence is locked 🔥. That's the whole vibe: it asserts, via lockdep, that fence is locked. No cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dma_fence_assert_held (fence );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• fence — the fence which should be locked 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The SEE ALSO list is giving main character energy, and it starts with the Kernel file ./include/linux/dma-fence.h. Then all these besties:

• struct dma_fence(9)
• struct dma_fence_cb(9)
• struct dma_fence_ops(9)
• dma_fence_was_initialized(9)
• dma_fence_put(9)
• dma_fence_get(9)
• dma_fence_get_rcu(9)
• dma_fence_get_rcu_safe(9)
• dma_fence_spinlock(9)
• dma_fence_lock_irqsave(9)
• dma_fence_unlock_irqrestore(9)
• Safe external access to driver provided object members(9)
• dma_fence_is_signaled_locked(9)
• dma_fence_is_signaled(9)
• __dma_fence_is_later(9)
• dma_fence_is_later(9)
• dma_fence_is_later_or_same(9)
• dma_fence_later(9)
• dma_fence_get_status_locked(9)
• dma_fence_set_error(9)
• dma_fence_timestamp(9)
• dma_fence_wait(9)
• dma_fence_is_array(9)
• dma_fence_is_chain(9)
• dma_fence_is_container(9)

🫶 source/version: ./include/linux · date: October 2026 · page: dma_fence_assert_held(9) — mwah, bestie 💋