drm_gpuvm_bo_create(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 drm_gpuvm_bo_create — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the drm_gpuvm_bo_create(9) page — yes it's a kernel API manual, yes we're gonna read it, and yes you're gonna slay it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

drm_gpuvm_bo_create — create a new instance of struct drm_gpuvm_bo 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct drm_gpuvm_bo * drm_gpuvm_bo_create (struct drm_gpuvm *gpuvm ,
struct drm_gem_object *obj );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • gpuvm — the drm_gpuvm that obj is mapped in, like, that's its whole home base 🏠
  • obj — the drm_gem_object that's being mapped in the gpuvm, the actual star of the show ngl ⭐

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: if the driver provides it, this function uses the drm_gpuvm_ops vm_bo_alloc callback to do the allocating. literally that's it, that's the whole teapot 🫖✨

🔥 RETURN 🔥

a pointer to the drm_gpuvm_bo on success 🎉, NULL on failure 😭 (no cap, that's just how it is)

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole friend group showed up, and we're listing every single one bc nobody gets left out 💜

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuvm.c, plus:

aaaaand that's the page!! 🎀 source is ./drivers/gpu/drm, dated October 2026, and the whole thing answers to the name drm_gpuvm_bo_create(9) 🦋 mwah, go create some buffer objects bestie 💅💖

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