vmw_cmdbuf_ctx_add(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ vmw_cmdbuf_ctx_add(9) ✨

okay bestie, so this one is a kernel API manual page for vmw_cmdbuf_ctx_add(9) and it is literally the function that hands your command buffer off to the queue 💅 stay with me, it's short and it slays.

🎀 NAME 🎀

vmw_cmdbuf_ctx_add — schedule a command buffer for submission on a command buffer context 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void vmw_cmdbuf_ctx_add (struct vmw_cmdbuf_man *man , struct
       vmw_cmdbuf_header *header , SVGACBContext cb_context );

like, that's the whole signature, no cap 👑

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • man — the command buffer manager. your main character struct fr 🫶
  • header — the header of the buffer you wanna submit. it's giving "the actual thing" ✨
  • cb_context — the command buffer context to use. pick your vibe, bestie 🎯

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so what it does: this function adds header to the "submitted" queue of the command buffer context identified by cb_context. then it calls the command buffer manager processing to potentially submit the buffer to hardware 💀 note the "potentially" — it's not a guarantee, it's a vibe check 🔍

⚠️ okay this is the important part bestie: man->lock needs to be held when calling this function. no lock, no love. don't skip this 🙈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole extended fam, go say hi 💜

and that's the whole page, periodt 🌈 this cutie lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx and the version note says October 2026, so mark your calendar bestie — sourced straight from that directory, mwah 💋🧚

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