STRUCT DRM_IVPU_BO_CREATE_FROM_USERPTR(9)

💅 NAME 💅

okay so this is the Kernel API Manual page for struct drm_ivpu_bo_create_from_userptr — and what it does is literally create a dma-buf from a user pointer. that's the whole vibe. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bestie, here's the struct in all its glory — copy it exactly, no improvising:

struct drm_ivpu_bo_create_from_userptr {
    __u64 user_ptr;
    __u64 size;
    __u32 flags;
    __u32 handle;
    __u64 vpu_addr;
};

🎀 Members 🎀

• user_ptr — the user pointer to the memory region. ⚠️ it must be page aligned, no exceptions, she's strict about this.
• size — how big the memory region is, in bytes. also must be page aligned. yes, both of them. iykyk. 📏
• flags — the supported flags, and here's the lineup:
  • DRM_IVPU_BO_HIGH_MEM — allocate the VPU address from the >4GB range. big-address energy. 🔥
  • DRM_IVPU_BO_DMA_MEM — allocate from the DMA memory range that's accessible by hardware DMA. 🚀
  • DRM_IVPU_BO_READ_ONLY — allocate it as a read-only buffer object. no touchy. 🙈
• handle — the returned GEM object handle. it comes back to you, bestie. 🎁
• vpu_addr — the returned VPU virtual address. also a gift. ⭐

🌸 Description 🌸

so the whole point of this icon is that it creates a GEM buffer object from a user pointer to a memory region. that's it, that's the tea. 🍓

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go read these next, they're all in the kernel file ./include/uapi/drm/ivpu_accel.h:

• contexts(9)
• DRM_IVPU_CAP_METRIC_STREAMER(9)
• DRM_IVPU_CAP_DMA_MEMORY_RANGE(9)
• DRM_IVPU_CAP_MANAGE_CMDQ(9)
• DRM_IVPU_CAP_BO_CREATE_FROM_USERPTR(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_param(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_bo_create(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_bo_info(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_submit(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_cmdq_submit(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_bo_wait(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_metric_streamer_start(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_metric_streamer_get_data(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_cmdq_create(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_cmdq_destroy(9)
• struct drm_ivpu_metric_streamer_stop(9)

aaaand that's the page!! 🧚 source is ./include/uapi/drm, dated October 2026, and it's the manual entry for struct drm_i...from_userptr(9). periodt. 👑💖