sdma_v6_0_ri...mit_mem_sync(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 sdma_v6_0_ring_emit_mem_sync(9) — bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and the function we're stanning today is literally called sdma_v6_0_ring_emit_mem_sync. Her whole personality? Flushing the IB by graphics cache rinse. That's it, that's the vibe. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

sdma_v6_0_ring_emit_mem_sync — flush the IB by graphics cache rinse 🫧

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void sdma_v6_0_ring_emit_mem_sync (struct amdgpu_ring *ring );

no cap, that's the whole signature. returns nothing (void, so she gives you no feedback, very mysterious of her 💅), and takes exactly one thing.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • ring — an amdgpu ring pointer. that's the whole description, she's a woman of few words 😭 it's the amdgpu ring you're handing over, periodt.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does she actually do? per the manual, she flushes the IB by graphics cache rinse. that's the entire description, bestie — no extra lore, no secret side quests. the "IB" gets flushed, via a graphics cache rinse, and that's the whole main character moment 🔥

ngl it's giving "does one thing and does it iconic." don't go reading extra behaviour into it, because the page doesn't say anything beyond flush-the-IB-by-graphics-cache-rinse and we are not out here inventing facts 🙈

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the actual kernel file this lives in, iykyk:

  • ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v6_0.c

and her whole friend group (all the (9) girlies 💖) — every single one, no skips:

reminder that this page came out of ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu — that's the source/version side of things — and it's dated October 2026 ⭐

k that's the whole page, you ate that, go flush something responsibly 🧚💜 mwah!

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