vmw_cmd_dx_bind_query(9)

💅 vmw_cmd_dx_bind_query — the Kernel API Manual, section 9, bestie 🎀

Okay so we're deep in the Kernel API Manual (section 9, the kernel-functions one, iykyk) and today's main character is vmw_cmd_dx_bind_query. She's a little validation function, she's lowkey iconic, and she has one job. Let's get into it ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

So here's how you call her, fr fr:

int vmw_cmd_dx_bind_query (struct vmw_private *dev_priv , struct
vmw_sw_context *sw_context , SVGA3dCmdHeader *header );

Three args, one int back. No cap. 💖

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dev_priv — pointer to a device private struct. That's the device's whole vibe in one struct, basically her home base 🏠
• sw_context — the software context used for this command submission. Every submission gets one of these, and this is the one we're working with rn 💅
• header — pointer to the command header in the command stream. The pointer that starts the whole story 🔥

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Okay so the query bind operation will eventually associate the query ID with its backing MOB. Not our problem today — that's future plans, other people's problem, not on this function's plate 🙈

What this function does: we take the user mode MOB ID and run it through vmw_translate_mob_ptr to translate it into its kernel mode equivalent. That's it. That's the whole gig. User-space ID in, kernel-space ID out, slay ✨

Like, genuinely — the entire job is that one translation. She's a specialist. She doesn't do extra. Periodt 💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The whole friend group, alphabetically-ish by vibe, and yes you have to say hi to all of them 🫶 Starting with the kernel file she lives in, ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c:

struct vmw_relocation(9), enum vmw_resource_relocation_type(9), struct vmw_resource_relocation(9), struct vmw_ctx_validation_info(9), struct vmw_cmd_entry(9), vmw_ptr_diff(9), vmw_execbuf_bindings_commit(9), vmw_bind_dx_query_mob(9), vmw_cmd_ctx_first_setup(9), vmw_execbuf_res_size(9), vmw_execbuf_rcache_update(9), vmw_execbuf_res_val_add(9), vmw_view_res_val_add(9), vmw_view_id_val_add(9), vmw_resource_context_res_add(9), vmw_resource_relocation_add(9), vmw_resource_relocations_free(9), vmw_resource_relocations_apply(9), vmw_resources_reserve(9), vmw_cmd_res_check(9), vmw_rebind_all_dx_query(9), vmw_rebind_contexts(9), vmw_view_bindings_add(9), vmw_cmd_cid_check(9), vmw_execbuf_info_from_res(9), vmw_query_bo_switch_prepare(9), vmw_query_bo_switch_commit(9), vmw_translate_mob_ptr(9), vmw_translate_guest_ptr(9), vmw_cmd_dx_define_query(9), vmw_cmd_begin_gb_query(9), vmw_cmd_begin_query(9), vmw_cmd_end_gb_query(9), vmw_cmd_end_query(9), vmw_cmd_wait_gb_query(9), vmw_cmd_wait_query(9), vmw_cmd_res_switch_backup(9), vmw_cmd_switch_backup(9), vmw_cmd_bind_gb_surface(9), vmw_cmd_update_gb_image(9), vmw_cmd_update_gb_surface(9), vmw_cmd_readback_gb_image(9), vmw_cmd_readback_gb_surface(9), vmw_cmd_invalidate_gb_image(9), vmw_cmd_invalidate_gb_surface(9), vmw_cmd_shader_define(9), vmw_cmd_shader_destroy(9), vmw_cmd_set_shader(9), vmw_cmd_set_shader_const(9), vmw_cmd_bind_gb_shader(9), vmw_cmd_dx_set_single_constant_buffer(9), vmw_cmd_dx_set_constant_buffer_offset(9), vmw_cmd_dx_set_shader_res(9), vmw_cmd_dx_set_shader(9), vmw_cmd_dx_set_vertex_buffers(9), vmw_cmd_dx_set_index_buffer(9), vmw_cmd_dx_set_rendertargets(9), vmw_cmd_dx_clear_rendertarget_view(9), vmw_cmd_dx_clear_depthstencil_view(9), vmw_cmd_dx_set_so_targets(9), vmw_cmd_dx_check_subresource(9), vmw_cmd_dx_view_remove(9), vmw_cmd_dx_define_shader(9), vmw_cmd_dx_destroy_shader(9), vmw_cmd_dx_bind_shader(9), vmw_cmd_dx_genmips(9), vmw_cmd_dx_transfer_from_buffer(9), vmw_cmd_intra_surface_copy(9), vmw_execbuf_copy_fence_user(9), vmw_execbuf_submit_fifo(9), vmw_execbuf_submit_cmdbuf(9), vmw_execbuf_cmdbuf(9), vmw_execbuf_unpin_panic(9), __vmw_execbuf_release_pinned_bo(9), vmw_execbuf_release_pinned_bo(9) 💀

That's the whole group chat. Go read them, they're all slaying in their own lanes 💖

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Quick vibe check, bestie: this page is straight from ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, dated October 2026, and it's filed under vmw_cmd_dx_bind_query(9). Screenshot it, cite it, love it. 🎀✨🦋