pvr_job_process_stream(9)

✨ pvr_job_process_stream(9) ✨

okay so bestie, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual — it's pvr_job_process_stream(9), and it's literally the glow-up moment where a raw command stream becomes a job FW structure. it's giving "caterpillar to butterfly" but make it kernel 🦋

💖 NAME 💖

pvr_job_process_stream — build the job FW structure from a stream, no cap 🔥

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int pvr_job_process_stream (struct pvr_device *pvr_dev , const struct
       pvr_stream_cmd_defs *cmd_defs , void *stream , u32 stream_size , struct
       pvr_job *job );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pvr_dev — the device pointer. yes bestie, the whole device, we're not doing anything small today 👑
• cmd_defs — the stream definition. this is the blueprint, the vision board, the whole plan 🗂️
• stream — pointer to the command stream itself. the raw material, the main character 💅
• stream_size — size of that command stream, in bytes. gotta know how much material we're working with fr fr 📏
• job — pointer to the job. this is where it all ends up 🫶

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

it takes your stream and builds the job FW structure out of it. iconic behavior honestly.

⚠️ okay important thing, don't scroll past this: the caller is responsible for freeing the output structure. like, you made it, you clean it up. no leaving it lying around for someone else to deal with 😭🧹

⭐ RETURN ⭐

• 0 on success — slay, it worked ✨
• -ENOMEM on out of memory — the vibes ran out of space 💀
• -EINVAL on malformed stream — the stream was not it, bestie 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_job.c
• pvr_job_put(9)
• struct pvr_job_data(9)
• prepare_job_syncs(9)
• prepare_job_syncs_for_each(9)
• pvr_job_data_fini(9)
• pvr_job_data_init(9)
• pvr_submit_jobs(9)

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🍓 this one's from ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination, dated October 2026, and it's pvr_job_process_stream(9) — periodt 💜🧚‍♀️