drm_gem_object_release(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 drm_gem_object_release(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the drm_gem_object_release(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — yes it's a real section-9 manpage and yes it's lowkey iconic ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

drm_gem_object_release — release GEM buffer object resources 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void drm_gem_object_release (struct drm_gem_object *obj );

that's it. that's the whole signature. no cap 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • obj — the GEM buffer object in question 🌈

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so what this does is it releases any structures and resources used by obj, and it's literally the inverse of drm_gem_object_init 🔥 think of it as the breakup text after the situationship — everything gets handed back, nothing left on read 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file lives at ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c 🍓 and here's the whole friend group, all of them, no gatekeeping:

thirty-five cross-references and every single one of them made the cut, we don't do "etc" around here 🧚💖

reminder bestie: this page ships out of ./drivers/gpu/drm in the kernel tree, so if you're poking at it IRL that's where the source lives 🎀

and that's the page!! mwah 💋 — signed off from the Kernel API Manual, source <purple>./drivers/gpu/drm</purple>, dated October 2026, page drm_gem_object_release(9) forever and always 💜🦋🌸

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