ttm_base_object_unref(9)

💅 ttm_base_object_unref(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie

okay so grab a snack because this one's short but it's lowkey important 🍓 this is page ttm_base_object_unref(9) out of the Kernel API Manual, and she is all about putting your references down gently. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

ttm_base_object_unref — (and yes bestie, the description line in the original is literally blank. iconic of her honestly. the vibes are immaculate, the words are not there 🫶)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void ttm_base_object_unref (struct ttm_base_object **p_base );

that's it. that's the whole signature. she's giving minimal, she's giving main character energy 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• p_base — a pointer to a pointer that's referencing a struct ttm_base_object. yeah, double pointer. pointer² if you will. it's not as scary as it sounds, i promise 😭 it just means we get to reach through one pointer and touch the thing on the other side 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does she actually do? two things, and honestly both of them ate:

1. she decrements the base object refcount — the count goes down by one, that's the whole job, no cap 🙈
2. she clears the pointer pointed to by p_base — like, she tidies up after herself. the pointer you handed her doesn't just point at stale nonsense afterwards, it gets cleared ⭐

that's genuinely it. she's a two-step icon and she does both steps flawlessly. periodt.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go touch some more docs, bestie, the whole little family is right here:

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/ttm_object.h enum ttm_object_type(9)
• struct ttm_base_object(9)
• struct ttm_prime_object(9)
• ttm_base_object_init(9)
• ttm_base_object_lookup(9)
• ttm_base_object_lookup_for_ref(9)
• ttm_ref_object_base_unref(9)
• ttm_object_file_init(9)
• ttm_object_file_release(9)
• ttm_object_device_release(9)

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ok one gentle PSA before you go 🌈 — the whole point of this one is balance. she decrements. she clears. if you were expecting her to do anything else, she did not, and she will not. love that for her, honestly.

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and that's the page!! 💖 brought to you straight out of ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, dated October 2026, in the Kernel API Manual — mwah, catch you on the next refcount 🧚‍♀️🎀