pvr_page_table_l1_free(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 pvr_page_table_l1_free — Kernel API Manual ✨

Okay so bestie, welcome to the ✨ pvr_page_table_l1_free(9) ✨ page — it lives in the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally the "bye-bye level 1 page table" moment. Short page, big consequences. Let's go 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

pvr_page_table_l1_free — teardown a level 1 page table. That's the whole vibe. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void pvr_page_table_l1_free (struct pvr_page_table_l1 *table );

That's it. One function, one pointer, zero return value. Iconic minimalism 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • table — the target level 1 page table. Like, the specific one you're tearing down. Point it at the right table or... don't, actually, please point it at the right table 🙈

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So here's the tea, and it's important tea: once you call this function on table, it is an error to use table again — even indirectly. Not "kinda sketchy," not "works if you're lucky" — an actual error. 🫶

And yes, that includes calling pvr_page_table_l2_remove. You have to call that before pvr_page_table_l1_free. Before. Not after. Not during. Before. The ordering is not optional, the ordering is the whole personality of this function 💀

⚠️ Bestie, read that again: pvr_page_table_l2_remove must be called before pvr_page_table_l1_free. Once you free, the pointer is donezo — no reusing, no peeking, no "just one more call." 👑 The original is very emphatic about this and put asterisks around "before" because it means it. Directly using the table after free is an error. Indirectly using it after free is also an error. There is no loophole route, iykyk. 🧚

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

Buckle up, this list is long and honestly it ate 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_mmu.c

And that's the page, bestie 🫶💜 Sourced straight from ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination, dated October 2026 — so yes, this manual page is from the future, and it still wants you to call pvr_page_table_l2_remove first. Slay 🎀✨

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