drm_gem_shmem_free(9)

✨ drm_gem_shmem_free(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🎀 — this is the page for drm_gem_shmem_free, and yes it's literally the cleanup crew of the shmem GEM world 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

drm_gem_shmem_free — frees all the resources tied to a shmem GEM object 🫶

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

void drm_gem_shmem_free (struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• shmem — the shmem GEM object you're freeing, bestie. that's the one going bye-bye 👋

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so this function does the glow-up cleanup 🧚: it tidies up the GEM object state and frees the memory that was used to store the object itself. both things. not one, not the other — both, periodt 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, no cap 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c overview(9)
• drm_gem_shmem_init(9)
• drm_gem_shmem_create(9)
• drm_gem_shmem_release(9)
• drm_gem_shmem_pin(9)
• drm_gem_shmem_unpin(9)
• drm_gem_shmem_create_with_handle(9)
• drm_gem_shmem_dumb_create(9)
• drm_gem_shmem_mmap(9)
• drm_gem_shmem_print_info(9)
• drm_gem_shmem_get_sg_table(9)
• drm_gem_shmem_get_pages_sgt(9)
• drm_gem_shmem_prime_import_sg_table(9)
• drm_gem_shmem_prime_import_no_map(9)

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ngl if you got here you were probably looking for the free. you found it 🍓

mwah 💜 that's the whole page — signed, sealed, delivered from ./drivers/gpu/drm in October 2026 under the name drm_gem_shmem_free(9) slay 🎀✨