sdma_v3_0_gfx_stop(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ sdma_v3_0_gfx_stop ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 this one's a tiny little function but she's got main character energy in the AMDGPU universe, fr fr.

🌸 NAME 🌸

sdma_v3_0_gfx_stop — the girl whose whole job is to shut down the gfx async dma engines 🛑✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void sdma_v3_0_gfx_stop (struct amdgpu_device *adev );

literally that's it. one function, one pointer, zero drama 💅

💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

  • adev — an amdgpu_device pointer 🫶 that's the whole thing, bestie, just hand her the device and she'll handle the rest.

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Stop the gfx async dma ring buffers (VI). 💀 yes queen, tear them down. VI as in Vega/Volcanic-Islands-era hardware, iykyk 🌈. She doesn't explain further, she just stops them. iconic honestly.

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

the source file lives at ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v3_0.c — go read her sisters, they're all linked up in one big family group chat 🧚💖:

no cap, every single one of those is a real cross-reference, don't come for me 🙈

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 sourced straight from ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu — version dating all the way to October 2026 🌸 stay stoppin' those ring buffers, mwah 🎀✨

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