pvr_ioctl_create_bo(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

pvr_ioctl_create_bo — the IOCTL that creates a GEM buffer object, and yes bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for pvr_ioctl_create_bo(9). Main-character syscall energy only 💅✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int pvr_ioctl_create_bo (struct drm_device *drm_dev , void *raw_args ,
struct drm_file *file );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• drm_dev — [IN] the target DRM device. That’s the vibe check target 🎯
• raw_args — [IN/OUT] the arguments passed to this IOCTL. This must be of type struct drm_pvr_ioctl_create_bo_args, no substitutions bestie 🫶
• file — [IN] the DRM file-private data. Very private. Very file. Very DRM. 💖

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This one gets called from userspace with DRM_IOCTL_PVR_CREATE_BO — that’s literally the whole description, and honestly? Iconic. 👑

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

• 0 on success 🎉
• -EINVAL if the value of drm_pvr_ioctl_create_bo_args.size is zero or wider than typedef size_t
• -EINVAL if any bits in drm_pvr_ioctl_create_bo_args.flags that are reserved or undefined are set
• -EINVAL if any padding fields in drm_pvr_ioctl_create_bo_args are not zero
• Any error encountered while creating the object (see pvr_gem_object_create), or
• Any error encountered while transferring ownership of the object into a userspace-accessible handle (see pvr_gem_object_into_handle)

Fr fr, those -EINVAL cases are the “check ur args before u come at me” squad 😭 Keep reserved flags and padding clean, bestie.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_drv.c, plus PowerVR (Series 6 and later) and IMG Graphics Driver(9) — and the whole cinematic universe of related pages:

• pvr_ioctl_get_bo_mmap_offset(9)
• pvr_dev_query_gpu_info_get(9)
• pvr_dev_query_runtime_info_get(9)
• pvr_dev_query_quirks_get(9)
• pvr_dev_query_enhancements_get(9)
• pvr_ioctl_dev_query(9)
• pvr_ioctl_create_context(9)
• pvr_ioctl_destroy_context(9)
• pvr_ioctl_create_free_list(9)
• pvr_ioctl_destroy_free_list(9)
• pvr_ioctl_create_hwrt_dataset(9)
• pvr_ioctl_destroy_hwrt_dataset(9)
• pvr_ioctl_create_vm_context(9)
• pvr_ioctl_destroy_vm_context(9)
• pvr_ioctl_vm_map(9)
• pvr_ioctl_vm_unmap(9)
• pvr_drm_driver_open(9)
• pvr_drm_driver_postclose(9)

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Source/version: ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination — dated October 2026. That’s the cute lil sign-off, bestie 🫶💖 Go create some buffer objects responsibly ✨