intel_gvt_sc...dow_workload(9)

💅 intel_gvt_scan_and_shadow_workload(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes that's the manual name, and yes we're gonna get through this together, it's literally not even that deep 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

intel_gvt_scan_and_shadow_workload — it audits the workload by scanning and shadowing it too, which includes the ringbuffer, wa_ctx and ctx. like it's doing the whole vibe check on every piece of it, no cap 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int intel_gvt_scan_and_shadow_workload (struct intel_vgpu_workload
       *workload );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• workload — an abstract entity for each execlist submission. like it's the concept of a submission, not a concrete thing, iykyk 🦋

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so this function gets called before the workload is submitted to i915, and its whole job is making sure the content of the workload is valid. that's it, that's the gig — pre-flight check energy, main character behavior honestly 👑

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/scheduler.c — go read it, it's giving lore 📖

• intel_vgpu_clean_submission(9)
• intel_vgpu_reset_submission(9)
• intel_vgpu_setup_submission(9)
• intel_vgpu_select_submission_ops(9)
• intel_vgpu_destroy_workload(9)
• intel_vgpu_create_workload(9)
• intel_vgpu_queue_workload(9)

the whole friend group fr fr 🫶

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