radeon_gart_table_vram_free(9)

💅 radeon_gart_table_vram_free(9) — the kernel API manual, bestie edition

Okay so real talk, this is page radeon_gart_table_vram_free(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it's a tiny little icon but she's so important, so let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

radeon_gart_table_vram_free — free gart page table vram 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void radeon_gart_table_vram_free (struct radeon_device *rdev );

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• rdev — a radeon_device pointer. that's it, that's the whole argument, she's low maintenance 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So basically this frees the video memory that was being used for the GART page table, and that's specifically for pcie r4xx and r5xx+ ✨

And like, why only those? because these asics literally require the gart table to be in video memory — no cap, that's just how they're built 😭 so this function is the clean-up queen that hands that vram back. main character energy fr fr 👑

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_gart.c

And the whole gart girl squad, obviously 💖

• radeon_gart_table_ram_alloc(9)
• radeon_gart_table_ram_free(9)
• radeon_gart_table_vram_alloc(9)
• radeon_gart_table_vram_pin(9)
• radeon_gart_table_vram_unpin(9)
• radeon_gart_unbind(9)
• radeon_gart_bind(9)
• radeon_gart_init(9)
• radeon_gart_fini(9)

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ngl this page is short but she ate 🍓 don't sleep on the free() functions, someone has to do the tidying or the vram just sits there.

Okay that's the whole vibe check, mwah 💋 — this cutie lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon, dated October 2026, and she's filed under radeon_gart_table_vram_free(9). slay 🌈✨