vmw_close_channel(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, we're looking at vmw_close_channel(9) from the Kernel API Manual — and the NAME line is giving mysterious icon energy: it's vmw_close_channel - with the description left empty after the dash. No cap, that's the whole NAME section, and we respect the blankness 💅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the signature, copied exactly so nobody comes for me:

int vmw_close_channel (struct rpc_channel *channel );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• channel — the RPC channel, bestie. That's the argument, and she's literally right there in the signature 🫶

🌈 RETURN 🌈

0 on success ✨ that's the return vibe, periodt.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the Kernel file is ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_msg.c, and the whole see-also squad is:

• vmw_open_channel(9)
• vmw_port_hb_out(9)
• vmw_port_hb_in(9)
• vmw_send_msg(9)
• vmw_recv_msg(9)
• vmw_host_get_guestinfo(9)
• vmw_host_printf(9)
• vmw_msg_ioctl(9)
• reset_ppn_array(9)
• hypervisor_ppn_reset_all(9)
• hypervisor_ppn_add(9)
• hypervisor_ppn_remove(9)
• mksstat_init_record_time(9)
• mksstat_init_kern_id(9)
• vmw_mksstat_get_kern_slot(9)
• vmw_mksstat_cleanup_descriptor(9)
• vmw_mksstat_remove_all(9)
• vmw_mksstat_reset_ioctl(9)
• vmw_mksstat_add_ioctl(9)
• vmw_mksstat_remove_ioctl(9)
• vmw_disable_backdoor(9)

mwah 💋 that's the page! this cutie's source/version is ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, dated October 2026, and it's out here living its vmw_close_channel(9) life. bye bestie, ily! 💖