pvr_submit_jobs(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 pvr_submit_jobs — submit jobs to the GPU

okay bestie, welcome to the pvr_submit_jobs(9) page, straight out of the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one lives in the PowerVR driver and it's literally the function that yeets your jobs at the GPU 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

pvr_submit_jobs — submit jobs to the GPU 🎀

Like, that's the whole vibe. Jobs. Submitted. To the GPU. Slay.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int pvr_submit_jobs (struct pvr_device *pvr_dev , struct pvr_file
*pvr_file , struct drm_pvr_ioctl_submit_jobs_args *args );

It returns an int, it takes three pointers, and yes the spacing is exactly like that, no cap 💀

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • pvr_dev — the target PowerVR device 💖 this is the actual GPU situation you're talking to.
  • pvr_file — pointer to the PowerVR file structure. very "your file, your business" energy.
  • args — the ioctl args. the little bag of stuff you're handing over. 🎀

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Okay so here's the part you need to know: this initial implementation is entirely synchronous 😭 like, no async games here. when it returns, the GPU will be idle. fully done. nothing cooking in the background. periodt.

bestie pls note: this will not be the case for future implementations 👀 so don't go building your whole personality around it staying synchronous, iykyk.

💜 RETURN 💜

  • 0 on success 🎉 iconic, we love a zero.
  • -EFAULT if arguments can not be copied from user space 😬 classic user-space said no.
  • -EINVAL on invalid arguments 🙈 you gave it something it can't work with.
  • Any other error 💀 yeah. it can just... do that. any other error. good luck babes.

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_job.c plus the whole friend group:

go read them, they're all main character energy in their own way 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this absolute icon of a manual page comes to you from ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination and it's dated October 2026 — yes, the future. we're so ahead of the game 💅✨🦋

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