vcn_v5_0_2_e...clock_gating(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 vcn_v5_0_2_enable_clock_gating — a kernel API manual moment 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — this one's a little function page and honestly it's giving "small but mighty." let's get into it 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

vcn_v5_0_2_enable_clock_gating — literally just: turn on VCN clock gating. that's the whole vibe. 👑

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

void vcn_v5_0_2_enable_clock_gating (struct amdgpu_vcn_inst *vinst );

no return value, no drama, it's a void function and it knows it 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • vinst — the VCN instance. that's it. that's the whole parameter. she takes exactly one (1) instance and she's not sorry 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Enable clock gating for the VCN block.

that's it!! that's the description!! short, sweet, iconic, no cap 🔥 like, some manpages will write you a whole novel and this one is just "enable it, bestie" and honestly? respect. clock gating: enabled. block: VCN. energy: main character ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

so like, if you wanna go down the rabbit hole (and you do, iykyk), here's the whole friend group 👯‍♀️

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/vcn_v5_0_2.c — go read the source fr fr 📖

and all her siblings:

like, that's the whole ensemble cast bestie 💀 every single one of them, in order, exactly as listed. i don't make the rules, i just recite them 🌈

lowkey note: vcn_v5_0_2_disable_clock_gating(9) is right there in the list, so yes, there IS an off switch. balance. symmetry. slay. 💅

okay that's the page!! mwah 💋 — signed, sealed, delivered from ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu, October 2026, kernel API manual, version vcn_v5_0_2_e...clock_gating(9) 🎀✨ you're welcome, go enable some clock gating 🦋💜

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