vmw_bo_free(9)

💖 vmw_bo_free — the vmw_bo destructor, bestie 💖

okay so picture this: it's a page from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and the star of the show is literally called vmw_bo_free. yes bestie, it's the vmw_bo destructor — the goodbye-girlie of the vmw_bo world, and she ate. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void vmw_bo_free (struct ttm_buffer_object *bo );

no cap, that's the whole signature. void in, void out, one pointer, zero drama. 🦋

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• bo — pointer to the embedded struct ttm_buffer_object. like, not a standalone one, she's embedded, she's nested, she's living inside something bigger and that is her whole vibe. iykyk. 💅

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

first up, the source her own self lives in — the kernel file:

./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_bo.c

and then the whole friend group, in the exact order the manual gives them:

• vmw_bo_pin_in_placement(9)
• vmw_bo_pin_in_vram_or_gmr(9)
• vmw_bo_pin_in_vram(9)
• vmw_bo_pin_in_start_of_vram(9)
• vmw_bo_unpin(9)
• vmw_bo_get_guest_ptr(9)
• vmw_bo_pin_reserved(9)
• vmw_bo_map_and_cache(9)
• vmw_bo_unmap(9)
• vmw_bo_init(9)
• vmw_user_bo_synccpu_grab(9)
• vmw_user_bo_synccpu_release(9)
• vmw_user_bo_synccpu_ioctl(9)
• vmw_bo_unref_ioctl(9)
• vmw_user_bo_lookup(9)
• vmw_bo_fence_single(9)
• vmw_bo_swap_notify(9)
• vmw_bo_move_notify(9)

that's eighteen besties plus the source file. the group chat is popping. 🫶✨

lowkey reminder: this is a destructor, so she's the ending of the story — the counterpart to vmw_bo_init(9) up there. when you need her, you already know why. 🙈

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and that's the whole page, bestie — no more, no less, every flag and reference intact and accounted for. 💜

signed off with love from the <code>./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx</code> corner of the tree, dated October 2026, page vmw_bo_free(9) — mwah 💋