panthor_fw_a...pend_buf_mem(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 panthor_fw_a...pend_buf_mem(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the kernel API manual for panthor_fw_a...pend_buf_mem(9) — yes that's the actual truncated title, no I did not do that, the man page did. we're getting into the DRM/Panthor firmware guts today and honestly? it's giving backstage-pass energy. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

panthor_fw_alloc_suspend_buf_mem — allocate a suspend buffer for a command stream group. that's it, that's the whole job. one function, one purpose, main character energy only. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct panthor_kernel_bo * panthor_fw_alloc_suspend_buf_mem (struct
panthor_device *ptdev , size_t size );

look at her. returns a struct panthor_kernel_bo *, takes a struct panthor_device *ptdev and a size_t size. clean, simple, iconic. 🦋

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • ptdev — the Device. the whole device. your fave. the one we're doing all this for. 💜
  • size — Size of the suspend buffer. like, how much suspend buffer. that's the size. bestie I said what I said. ✨

🔥 RETURN 🔥

A valid pointer in case of success, an ERR_PTR otherwise. so like — success got you a real one, and failure hands you an ERR_PTR to go check with IS_ERR() / PTR_ERR(). no cap, that's the whole contract. 🫡

lowkey reminder: if you're out here dereferencing an ERR_PTR without checking, that's not a vibe, that's a crash. do the vibe check first. 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c — the source, the mothership, go read her. 📖

and the whole friend group, in the order the man page lists them (yes, all of them, we don't skip anyone in this house):

that's the whole page bestie, you ate it, you understood it, you're basically a Panthor firmware girlie now 👑

sign-off time: this one lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/panthor, and it's dated October 2026 — so go forth and allocate responsibly, mwah 💋🍓

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