drm_gem_handle_delete(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ drm_gem_handle_delete(9) ✨

okay so bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for drm_gem_handle_delete — yes that manual name is doing a lot but stay with me, it's gonna slay 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

drm_gem_handle_delete — deletes the given file-private handle 🗑️✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int drm_gem_handle_delete (struct drm_file *filp , u32 handle );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • filp — the drm file-private structure you use to look up the handle 👀
  • handle — the userspace handle you're deleting, bye bestie 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what this does is it removes the GEM handle from the filp lookup table — the one that got added earlier with drm_gem_handle_create. literally the cleanup arc 🌈

and here's the tea 🔥: if this happens to be the last handle, it also cleans up the linked resources, like GEM names. last one out turns off the lights fr fr 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c

that's the whole page bestie, go delete some handles responsibly 🧚💜

sign-off szn: this one came from the Kernel API Manual, lives under ./drivers/gpu/drm, and it's dated October 2026 — iconic, no cap ⭐🎀

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