intel_cleanup_plane_fb(9)

✨ intel_cleanup_plane_fb(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for intel_cleanup_plane_fb — yes the whole page is named after it, we love a main character 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

intel_cleanup_plane_fb — literally just cleans up an fb after the plane is done using it. that's it. that's the job. no cap 🧹✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void intel_cleanup_plane_fb (struct drm_plane *plane , struct
       drm_plane_state *_old_plane_state );

it returns void, so like… nothing comes back. she just does the thing and leaves 🌸

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• plane — the drm plane we're cleaning up for 🫶 this is the one getting the little spa treatment
• _old_plane_state — the state from the previous modeset, aka the receipts from last time 👀

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Cleans up a framebuffer that has just been removed from a plane.

like, the fb just got evicted from the plane and somebody's gotta tidy up after it, and that somebody is this function 💀✨ iconic behaviour honestly

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_plane.c
• atomic plane helpers(9)
• intel_plane_destroy(9)
• intel_plane_duplicate_state(9)
• intel_plane_destroy_state(9)
• intel_prepare_plane_fb(9)

go read those if you're nosy, i support it 💜

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🎀 this little gem lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display, dated October 2026 — periodt, go touch some planes (the drm kind) 🦋✨👑