radeon_vm_update_ptes(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay bestie, welcome to radeon_vm_update_ptes(9) from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this is the page about making sure page tables are valid, and it is giving lowkey essential GPU bookkeeping energy 💅

💖 NAME 💖

  • radeon_vm_update_ptes — make sure that page tables are valid 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int radeon_vm_update_ptes (struct radeon_device *rdev , struct radeon_vm
*vm , struct radeon_ib *ib , uint64_t start , uint64_t end , uint64_t
dst , uint32_t flags );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • rdev — radeon_device pointer 🖥️
  • vm — requested vm 🌸
  • ib — indirect buffer to use for the update 🧚
  • start — start of GPU address range 🎀
  • end — end of GPU address range 🦋
  • dst — destination address to map to 📍
  • flags — mapping flags 🚩

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Update the page tables in the range start - end (cayman+). 🛠️

⚠️ Global and local mutex must be locked! ⚠️ like, both of them, bestie — global and local, locked. no cap, this is not a skip-it situation 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_vm.c is where it's at, and here's the whole linked-functions group chat 👑:

mwah 💋 — source: ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon; date: October 2026; manual title: radeon_vm_update_ptes(9). that's the footer, folded into a cute little sign-off 🫶

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