pvr_queue_job_arm(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 pvr_queue_job_arm(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the <pink>Kernel API Manual</pink> page for pvr_queue_job_arm — yes that whole (9) at the end is the section number, it's giving "I live in the kernel docs now" ✨

✨ NAME ✨

pvr_queue_job_arm — arm a job object. that's it. that's the whole vibe check. 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct dma_fence * pvr_queue_job_arm (struct pvr_job *job );

literally just hand it a job and it hands you back a fence, no cap 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • job — the job to arm. that's the one, the main character of this whole function 🎀

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

okay so what this does is it initializes the fences and returns the drm_sched finished fence, so it can be exposed to the outside world 🌈 that's the whole point of arming — you're getting it ready to be seen.

but — and this is the important part, ngl — once this function is called, you should make sure the job is pushed using pvr_queue_job_push, or guarantee that nobody grabbed a reference to the returned fence 🔥

and why do we care? because the latter can happen if we do multi-job submission and something failed when creating/initializing a job 😭 in that case, we know the fence didn't leave the driver, so we can thus guarantee nobody will wait on a dead fence object. periodt. 💀

💖 bestie please don't skip this part — the "push it or nobody grabbed the fence" rule is the whole safety net, okay? don't leave a fence orphaned and sad 🙈

🧚 RETURN 🧚

  • a dma_fence object 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the kernel file lives right here, bestie:

./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_queue.c

and here's the whole friend group 💜:

and that's the page, bestie!! 🦋 this lil doc lives under ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination, and it's dated October 2026 — iykyk, mark your calendars 💅✨ see you in the kernel docs again soon, mwah 🫶🎀

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