should_commi...iate_context(9)

✨ should_commi...iate_context(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💅 and specifically to should_commit_intermediate_context — yes the page title got truncated by the man-page gremlins, it's giving "long function name, tiny header" energy, but we move 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

should_commit_intermediate_context — does this flow commit a transient, minimal-transition intermediate context? like, is this iteration actually gonna commit one? 👀

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

bool should_commit_intermediate_context (enum update_v3_flow flow );

literally all it needs is a flow bestie. returns a bool. no cap. ✨

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• flow — the commit flow that got selected for this iteration. that's it, that's the whole vibe check 🌈

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💖 RETURN 💖

true if this iteration commits the intermediate context. and if it doesn't… well, it's not true then, is it 😭 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole squad, the entire friend group, the full group chat 🔥 — seriously, this function hangs out with everybody in dc.c:

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c Overview(9)
• dc_stream_get_last_used_drr_vtotal(9)
• dc_stream_configure_crc(9)
• dc_stream_get_crc(9)
• dc_stream_adjust_vmin_vmax(9)
• dc_commit_state_no_check(9)
• dc_commit_streams(9)
• dc_check_state_update(9)
• dc_check_update_surfaces_for_stream(9)
• update_seamless_boot_flags(9)
• update_planes_and_stream_state(9)
• dc_check_address_only_update(9)
• build_dmub_cmd_list(9)
• could_mpcc_tree_change_for_active_pipes(9)
• commit_minimal_transition_state_in_dc_update(9)
• commit_minimal_transition_state(9)
• dc_update_state(9)
• dc_update_planes_and_stream(9)
• dc_enable_dcmode_clk_limit(9)
• dc_is_dmub_outbox_supported(9)
• dc_enable_dmub_notifications(9)
• dc_enable_dmub_outbox(9)
• dc_process_dmub_aux_transfer_async(9)
• dc_process_dmub_set_config_async(9)
• dc_process_dmub_set_mst_slots(9)
• dc_process_dmub_dpia_set_tps_notification(9)
• dc_process_dmub_dpia_hpd_int_enable(9)
• dc_print_dmub_diagnostic_data(9)
• dc_disable_accelerated_mode(9)
• dc_notify_vsync_int_state(9)
• dc_set_edp_power(9)
• dc_get_power_profile_for_dc_state(9)
• dc_get_det_buffer_size_from_state(9)
• dc_get_host_router_index(9)
• dc_update_probes_prepare(9)
• dc_update_probes_execute(9)

ngl that's a lot of see-also for a function that fits in one line 😭 but respect the network, it's iconic 🌟

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anyway that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 — this gem lives at ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/... and it was stamped October 2026, so yeah, it's a lil time traveler from the future. sending u all the slay vibes, go read dc.c and hydrate 🍓💜