i915_ttm_buddy_man_fini(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 i915_ttm_buddy_man_fini — bestie, it's time to say goodbye 💖

okay so real quick, this is from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and the star of the show is i915_ttm_buddy_man_fini(9)</p>. she's the cleanup queen. the fini to the init. every main character needs a graceful exit, and this is hers. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

i915_ttm_buddy_man_fini — literally just Destroy the buddy allocator ttm manager. that's it. that's the whole vibe. she tears it down. 🔥

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int i915_ttm_buddy_man_fini (struct ttm_device *bdev , unsigned int type );

so you call her, you hand her the deets, she returns an int. periodt. 💅

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • bdev — The ttm device. yes, the one. the device in question, the whole reason we're here 🫶
  • type — Memory type we want to manage. which flavour of memory this manager is handling, iykyk 😌

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so here's the tea that actually matters, don't skip it: if you reserved anything with i915_ttm_buddy_man_reserve, that stuff will also be freed for us here. no cap. you don't gotta go back and clean it up yourself — she's got you. that's the whole point of her. 🧚✨

⭐ RETURN ⭐

  • 0 on success 💖 (slay, it worked)
  • a negative error code on failure 😭 (it did not, in fact, slay)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file, in all her glory:

./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_ttm_buddy_manager.c

and her besties, the whole squad, all in (9):

💀 friendly reminder, bestie: fini is not init. do not mix them up. one builds the buddy allocator ttm manager and one destroys her. character development, but make it destructive. 🫶

and that's the page! a million thank-yous to ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915 for bringing us this icon, dated October 2026 — go off, kings 👑💜🍓

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