pvr_vm_create_context(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

pvr_vm_create_context — create a new VM context. This is the pvr_vm_create_context(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and yes bestie, we're getting into the VM-context lore 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so the signature is literally:

struct pvr_vm_context * pvr_vm_create_context (struct pvr_device
*pvr_dev , bool is_userspace_context );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• pvr_dev — the target PowerVR device, i.e. the device you're creating this context for 🫶
• is_userspace_context — true if this context is for userspace. This will create a firmware memory context for the VM context and disable warnings when tearing down mappings. slay.

🫶 RETURN 🫶

Here's the vibe check on what comes back:

• A handle to the newly-minted VM context on success,
• -EINVAL if the feature "virtual address space bits" on pvr_dev is missing or has an unsupported value,
• -ENOMEM if allocation of the structure behind the opaque handle fails, or
• Any error encountered while setting up internal structures.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole friend group, no cap:

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_vm.c
• Memory context(9)
• struct pvr_vm_context(9)
• pvr_vm_get_page_table_root_addr(9)
• pvr_vm_get_dma_resv(9)
• Memory mappings(9)
• struct pvr_vm_gpuva(9)
• struct pvr_vm_bind_op(9)
• pvr_vm_bind_op_exec(9)
• pvr_vm_gpuva_map(9)
• pvr_vm_gpuva_unmap(9)
• pvr_vm_gpuva_remap(9)
• pvr_device_addr_is_valid(9)
• pvr_device_addr_and_size_are_valid(9)
• pvr_vm_context_release(9)
• pvr_vm_context_lookup(9)
• pvr_vm_context_put(9)
• pvr_destroy_vm_contexts_for_file(9)
• pvr_vm_map(9)
• pvr_vm_unmap_obj_locked(9)
• pvr_vm_unmap_obj(9)
• pvr_vm_unmap(9)
• pvr_vm_unmap_all(9)
• pvr_heap_contains_range(9)
• pvr_find_heap_containing(9)
• pvr_vm_find_gem_object(9)
• pvr_vm_get_fw_mem_context(9)

mwah 💋 source/version: ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination; date: October 2026. byeee bestie, go create that VM context 🫶✨