vmw_cmdbuf_startstop(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so this is vmw_cmdbuf_startstop(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and bestie, its whole personality is this: send a start / stop command through the device context. that’s the vibe. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int vmw_cmdbuf_startstop (struct vmw_cmdbuf_man *man , u32 context ,
       bool enable );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• man — the command buffer manager, aka the main character handling the buffer situation.
• context — the device context to start/stop.
• enable — whether to enable or disable the context. literally the on/off switch energy.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This one synchronously sends a device start / stop context command. yes, synchronously — it’s giving “do the thing, then we move on,” no chaotic background side quest. 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay the SEE ALSO lore is LONG, so buckle up, bestie — every single reference is here:

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_cmdbuf.c
• struct vmw_cmdbuf_context(9)
• struct vmw_cmdbuf_man(9)
• struct vmw_cmdbuf_header(9)
• struct vmw_cmdbuf_dheader(9)
• struct vmw_cmdbuf_alloc_info(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_cur_lock(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_cur_unlock(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_header_inline_free(9)
• __vmw_cmdbuf_header_free(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_header_free(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_header_submit(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_ctx_init(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_ctx_submit(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_ctx_process(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_man_process(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_ctx_add(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_irqthread(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_work_func(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_man_idle(9)
• __vmw_cmdbuf_cur_flush(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_cur_flush(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_idle(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_try_alloc(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_alloc_space(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_space_pool(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_space_inline(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_alloc(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_reserve_cur(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_commit_cur(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_reserve(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_commit(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_send_device_command(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_preempt(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_set_pool_size(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_man_create(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_remove_pool(9)
• vmw_cmdbuf_man_destroy(9)

cute little sign-off check 🫶: source/version is ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, date is October 2026, and the page is vmw_cmdbuf_startstop(9). slay, byeee 💋