kvm_pmu_vcpu_destroy(9)

💅 kvm_pmu_vcpu_destroy(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie 🎀

Okay so picture this: you're deep in the kvm_pmu_vcpu_destroy(9) page of the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? It's giving cleanup era. ✨ This is the function that frees the perf event of the PMU for a CPU. That's it, that's the whole vibe — a little goodbye ritual so nothing leaks. 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

kvm_pmu_vcpu_destroy — free perf event of PMU for cpu 💖 (yes literally, that's what it does, no cap)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void kvm_pmu_vcpu_destroy (struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu );

Like… that's the whole signature. Void return, one argument, main character energy. 👑

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• vcpu — The vcpu pointer. That's it. That's the pointer. She's the vcpu pointer and she's iconic for it. 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

First up, the source file this whole situation lives in: Kernel file ./arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c 🍓 — like, that's home base, iykyk.

And now the whole friend group, fr fr — go read these too:

• kvm_pmc_is_64bit(9)
• kvm_pmu_get_counter_value(9)
• kvm_pmu_set_counter_value(9)
• kvm_pmu_set_counter_value_user(9)
• kvm_pmu_release_perf_event(9)
• kvm_pmu_stop_counter(9)
• kvm_pmu_vcpu_init(9)
• kvm_pmu_flush_hwstate(9)
• kvm_pmu_sync_hwstate(9)
• kvm_pmu_software_increment(9)
• kvm_pmu_handle_pmcr(9)
• kvm_pmu_create_perf_event(9)
• kvm_pmu_set_counter_event_type(9)
• kvm_arm_pmu_get_max_counters(9)
• kvm_arm_set_default_pmu(9)
• kvm_vcpu_read_pmcr(9)

Like a whole squad of PMU lore bestie, every single one of them. 👯‍♀️

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⭐ Little reminder: this page lives under ./arch/arm64/kvm, and the docs are dated October 2026, so when you cite her you cite kvm_pmu_vcpu_destroy(9). 🧚

Anyway bestie, that's the page — you're caught up, you're thriving, the perf event is freed, we love to see it. 💜🎀