vmw_cbs_context(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 vmw_cbs_context — the kernel API manual, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, this one lives in the kernel API manual, and it's genuinely a little cutie: it's the function that tells you which context resource owns a context binding state tracker. one job. she does it. periodt.

✨ NAME ✨

vmw_cbs_context — returns a pointer to the context resource of a context binding state tracker. that's the whole assignment, and she ate 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

const struct vmw_resource * vmw_cbs_context (const struct
       vmw_ctx_binding_state *cbs );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • cbs — the context binding state tracker. yeah, that's it, that's the whole input. she's low maintenance like that 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕ — provided there are any active bindings, this function hands you back an unreferenced pointer to the context resource that owns the context binding state tracker cbs. basically: "who's your owner, bestie?" and it answers.

but if there are no active bindings? she returns NULL. nothing going on, nothing to point at. iconic minimalism tbh.

⚠️ okay this part is important, do not skip it 🙈 — the caller must somehow ensure that a reference is held on the context resource prior to calling this function. the pointer you get back is unreferenced, so you'd better already be holding a ref yourself. no refs, no rights, no cap 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

alright buckle up, because this list is long and honestly kind of impressive 🌈 the kernel file is ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_binding.c, and she's friends with literally everyone:

like, okay, main character energy with a whole friend group 💜

and that's the page, bestie 🌟 huge thank you to ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx for hosting — this one's dated October 2026 — and shoutout to the kernel API manual for the slot. now go hold that reference before you call her, i'm literally begging 🍓💅

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