pvr_ioctl_create_context(9)

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

okay so hear me out: this is a page about pvr_ioctl_create_context, and it's literally the IOCTL that spins up a whole new context. main character energy fr fr. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

pvr_ioctl_create_context — the IOCTL that creates a context. that's it, that's the vibe 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

three args, one int coming back at you, no cap 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• drm_dev — [IN] the DRM device. the whole device. iconic.
• raw_args — [IN/OUT] the arguments passed to this IOCTL, and heads up bestie, this one must be of type struct drm_pvr_ioctl_create_context_args. like, non-negotiable 👑
• file — [IN]</color> the DRM file private data. yes the private data. we love a private data moment 💅

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so this bad boy gets called from userspace with DRM_IOCTL_PVR_CREATE_CONTEXT. that's the whole description. short, sweet, slays ✨

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

what comes back, you ask? okay so:

• 0 on success, or 😌
• -EINVAL if the provided arguments are invalid, or 🙈
• -EFAULT if the arguments can't be copied from userspace, or 💀
• any error returned by pvr_create_render_context. like, whatever that function decides to throw at you, you're getting it. periodt.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay the friend group is LARGE and honestly every one of them ate:

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_drv.c — PowerVR (Series 6 and later) and IMG Graphics Driver(9)
• pvr_ioctl_create_bo(9)
• 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_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)

go read them, iykyk 🧚

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this lil guy lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination, and the version/date stamp on it is October 2026 — so yeah, it's from the future, we don't question it 💀🦋 mwah, hope this helped, ily, go create some contexts 💖✨🎀