panthor_vm_pool_create_vm(9)

👑 panthor_vm_pool_create_vm(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and today's main character is panthor_vm_pool_create_vm 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

panthor_vm_pool_create_vm — literally just Create a VM. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int panthor_vm_pool_create_vm (struct panthor_device *ptdev , struct
panthor_vm_pool *pool , struct drm_panthor_vm_create *args );

like, that's the signature, no cap — copy it exactly, don't be weird about the spacing 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ptdev — The panthor device 💖 like, the actual hardware bestie we're talking to.
• pool — The VM to create this VM on. yes, it says that, yes it's a little meta, we don't make the rules 🌀
• args — VM creation args. the little bundle of wishes you're handing over 🎁

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

a positive VM ID on success 🥳 — and a negative error code otherwise 😭 (iykyk, that's just how the kernel says "no").

fr fr check it: success is positive, failure is negative. no zero-shenanigans mentioned, so don't go inventing any 👀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

this is the friend group, and honestly it's a big one. every single one of them, periodt:

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c

• struct panthor_as_slot(9)
• struct panthor_mmu(9)
• struct panthor_vm_pool(9)
• struct panthor_vma(9)
• struct panthor_vm_op_ctx(9)
• struct panthor_vm(9)
• struct panthor_vm_bind_job(9)
• alloc_pt(9)
• free_pt(9)
• panthor_vm_has_unhandled_faults(9)
• panthor_vm_is_unusable(9)
• panthor_vm_active(9)
• panthor_vm_idle(9)
• panthor_vm_as(9)
• panthor_vm_alloc_va(9)
• panthor_vm_free_va(9)
• panthor_vm_get_bo_for_va(9)
• panthor_vm_pool_destroy_vm(9)
• panthor_vm_pool_get_vm(9)
• panthor_vm_pool_destroy(9)
• panthor_vm_pool_create(9)
• panthor_mmu_suspend(9)
• panthor_mmu_resume(9)
• panthor_mmu_pre_reset(9)
• panthor_mmu_post_reset(9)
• panthor_vm_put(9)
• panthor_vm_get(9)
• panthor_vm_get_heap_pool(9)
• panthor_vm_heaps_sizes(9)
• panthor_vm_resv(9)
• panthor_vm_bind_job_put(9)
• panthor_vm_create(9)
• panthor_vm_bind_job_create(9)
• panthor_vm_bind_job_prepare_resvs(9)
• panthor_vm_bind_job_update_resvs(9)
• panthor_vm_bind_exec_sync_op(9)
• panthor_vm_map_bo_range(9)
• panthor_vm_unmap_range(9)
• panthor_vm_prepare_mapped_bos_resvs(9)
• panthor_mmu_unplug(9)
• panthor_mmu_init(9)
• panthor_mmu_debugfs_init(9)
• panthor_mmu_pt_cache_init(9)
• panthor_mmu_pt_cache_fini(9)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚💜 huge slay, go make some VMs.

source: ./drivers/gpu/drm/panthor · dated October 2026 · page panthor_vm_pool_create_vm(9) — mwah, catch u on the next man page 💋🎀