drm_exec_is_contended(9)

💖 drm_exec_is_contended(9) — a Kernel API Manual bestie moment 💖

✨ NAME ✨

drm_exec_is_contended — check for contention. That's the name, that's the assignment, and honestly? Iconic. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bool drm_exec_is_contended (struct drm_exec *exec );

No cap, that's the whole signature. ✨

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• exec — a drm_exec object. The main character of this function, fr fr. 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Returns true if the drm_exec object has run into some contention while locking a GEM object and needs to clean up. That's the whole vibe check, bestie — contention detected? The function says so with a true. 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay these are the other pages you should lowkey go read, because the kernel API is a whole friend group:

• Kernel file ./include/drm/drm_exec.h + struct drm_exec(9)
• drm_exec_obj(9)
• drm_exec_for_each_locked_object(9)
• drm_exec_for_each_locked_object_reverse(9)
• drm_exec_until_all_locked(9)
• drm_exec_retry_on_contention(9)
• drm_exec_retry(9)
• drm_exec_ticket(9)

All of those, no skips. 💅

mwah 💋 — sourced from ./include/drm, dated October 2026, and it's drm_exec_is_contended(9) signing off. Bye bestie! 🫶✨