sdma_v5_2_ri...mit_mem_sync(9)

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🦋 sdma_v5_2_ri...mit_mem_sync(9) — the girlies' guide 🦋

okay so real quick bestie, this page lives in section 9 of the Kernel API Manual (yes, the header up top is literally sdma_v5_2_ri...mit_mem_sync(9) — the man page tooling squished the full name, it's giving truncation 💀). The full function name, no cap, is sdma_v5_2_ring_emit_mem_sync, and I'm about to tell you everything about it. periodt.

✨ NAME ✨

sdma_v5_2_ring_emit_mem_sync — flush the IB by graphics cache rinse 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void sdma_v5_2_ring_emit_mem_sync (struct amdgpu_ring *ring );

it returns void, so like… it gives nothing back and that's iconic of it. 🫶

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • ring — amdgpu ring pointer. that's your ring bestie, an amdgpu_ring *, and you do have to hand it over.

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

flush the IB by graphics cache rinse. ✨

like yes that's the whole vibe — the IB gets flushed, and the way it happens is a graphics cache rinse. she's short, she's sweet, she does exactly one thing and she does it. no notes. 🔥

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v5_2.c — the source file where all this lives, go read it iykyk 📖

and the whole friend group, in order, no skipping, all of them:

all (9) bestie, every single one, don't come for me 🌈

ngl there's literally nothing dangerous in here — just a void function and one pointer argument. but like, always read the args before you call things, that's the rule 💜

and that's the page!! 💖 this little baddie ships out of ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu, dated October 2026, filed under sdma_v5_2_ri...mit_mem_sync(9) in section 9. slay, go flush something 🧚‍♀️🎀

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