dma_fence_enable_signaling(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 dma_fence_enable_signaling(9) 💖

okay so real quick, this little cutie lives in the Kernel API Manual and it's giving "tiny function, huge main character energy" ✨ like don't let the one-line synopsis fool you bestie, this is a whole moment.

🌸 NAME 🌸

dma_fence_enable_signaling — enable signaling on fence 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void dma_fence_enable_signaling (struct dma_fence *fence );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • fence — the fence to enable 💅 like, this is the one you're turning the signaling on for, the star of the show, the main character fr fr

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So what this does is it requests for sw signaling to be enabled, so the fence can complete as soon as possible. That's the whole vibe — you're basically like "hey bestie, pls wrap this up quickly" 🫶✨

Internally, this calls dma_fence_ops.enable_signaling. That's it, that's the tea ☕ no cap, it just hands off to that op and lets it do its thing.

ngl this is one of those "small but mighty" functions — the description is short but it's doing real work behind the scenes 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence.c — the source, go read it iykyk 📖💜

And literally the whole fence friend group, they all show up together, obsessed:

and that's the whole page bestie!! 💖✨🎀 this one came from ./drivers/dma-buf and it's dated October 2026 🗓️🌸 — go forth and enable that signaling, you got this 🫶💅

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