drm_gpusvm_range_destroy(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 drm_gpusvm_range_destroy — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie

okay so bestie, welcome to drm_gpusvm_range_destroy(9) 💖 this is the little page that tells you how a GPU SVM range gets yeeted into the void when nobody's holding onto it anymore. it's short, it's sweet, it's iconic. let's go ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

drm_gpusvm_range_destroy — Destroy GPU SVM range 🫶

literally what it says on the tin: it destroys the GPU SVM range.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void drm_gpusvm_range_destroy (struct kref *refcount );

that's the whole signature, no cap. one argument, returns void, does the thing 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • refcount — pointer to the reference counter that's embedded inside the GPU SVM range itself 👑 so yeah, the refcount lives in the range, and you're handing us a pointer to it. that's the whole vibe.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea 🍓 this function destroys the specified GPU SVM range when its reference count reaches zero — like, that's the trigger, that's the moment, that's the main character energy.

and then there's a fork in the road:

  • if a custom range-free function is provided, it gets invoked to free the range 🧚
  • otherwise, the range is deallocated using kfree 💀

so either your custom free function handles the cleanup and slays, or the kernel just hits it with a plain old kfree. both valid, both fine, just depends on what was set up 💜

fr fr, the "reaches zero" part matters — this is a reference-counted teardown, not a "call it whenever" situation 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this is the part where the page just dumps the whole friend group on you 😭 and we do not skip a single one, because every single one of them is linked and we keep every detail. so, in the order the page gave them:

like, that's the whole squad 🫶 go read them, they're all right there, iykyk.

that's the page!! short, useful, and honestly kind of a banger 💅 and for the cute sign-off: this one lives under ./drivers/gpu/drm 🌸, it's from October 2026, and it's filed as drm_gpusvm_range_destroy(9) 🎀 go destroy some ranges responsibly, bestie 💖✨

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