radeon_fence_read(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 radeon_fence_read(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for radeon_fence_read — this is the section-9 one, the kernel-functions vibe, and it's honestly a little cutie. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

radeon_fence_read — read a fence value. that's it. that's the whole thing. she reads a fence 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

u32 radeon_fence_read (struct radeon_device *rdev , int ring );

like, it hands you back a u32, and honestly? she ate 💜

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • rdev — a radeon_device pointer. yes, the whole device. she's nosy like that 👀
  • ring — the ring index that the fence is associated with. which ring, babe? you gotta tell her 🌈

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so the way this works is she reads a fence value — from memory or from a scratch register, and that's for all asics, no exceptions, no cap 🫶

and then she returns the value of the fence that she just read from memory or from the register. that's the whole function. short queen energy 👑

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

lowkey the biggest friend group in the whole driver. iykyk 🔥

the kernel file lives right here: ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c

and then, in the order the page gives them, her besties:

no gatekeeping, we link all 25 of them 💀✨

ngl bestie, she just reads the fence and gives you the value. no drama, no side quests, no surprises — and that's exactly why we stan 🍓

kay that's the whole page!! this one came out of ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon and it's dated October 2026 — so like, a little time-travel moment for us 🕰️ anyway mwah, go read some fences, ily, bye!! 💖🎀🦋

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