intel_frontbuffer_flush(9)

✨ intel_frontbuffer_flush ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 this is the page for intel_frontbuffer_flush(9) and it's literally the glow-up moment for your frontbuffer. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void intel_frontbuffer_flush (struct intel_frontbuffer *front , enum
fb_op_origin origin );

that's the whole vibe. two args, no return, we move 🎀

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• front — the GEM object to flush. that's the main character of this whole operation 👑
• origin — which operation caused the flush. like, what's the backstory, y'know? 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea 🍓 this function gets called every single time rendering on the given object has completed and frontbuffer caching can be started again. like, it's the "you're done, bestie, go rest" signal for the frontbuffer. no cap, that's exactly what it does 😭✨

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_frontbuffer.h
• intel_frontbuffer_invalidate(9)

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀💖✨

this slay of a manpage lives at ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display and it's dated October 2026 — ngl, it's giving timeless icon behavior 💅👑 bye bestie 🫶🌷