vmw_collect_view_ids(9)

✨ vmw_collect_view_ids(9) ✨

okay so bestie, this one is a kernel API manual page from section 9 — the vmw_collect_view_ids function. she's a little niche, a little GPU-driver-core, but we're gonna get through it together 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

vmw_collect_view_ids — builds view id data for a view binding command without checking which bindings actually need to be emitted ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void vmw_collect_view_ids (struct vmw_ctx_binding_state *cbs , const
       struct vmw_ctx_bindinfo_view *biv , u32 max_num );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• cbs — pointer to the context's struct vmw_ctx_binding_state 🫶
• biv — pointer to where the binding info array is stored in cbs
• max_num — the maximum number of entries in the bi array, fr fr

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the way this works: she scans the bi array for bindings and builds a buffer of view id data. that's it, that's the vibe ✨

She stops at the first non-existing binding in the bi array — like, that's the cutoff, no cap 💀

On output:

• cbs->bind_cmd_count contains the number of bindings to be emitted
• cbs->bind_first_slot is set to zero
• cbs->bind_cmd_buffer contains the command data

like, she's giving very much "do the thing and report back" energy 👑

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_binding.c plus a whole friend group of structs and functions — she literally knows everyone:

• struct vmw_ctx_binding_state(9)
• struct vmw_binding_info(9)
• vmw_cbs_context(9)
• vmw_binding_loc(9)
• vmw_binding_drop(9)
• vmw_binding_add(9)
• vmw_binding_cb_offset_update(9)
• vmw_binding_add_uav_index(9)
• vmw_binding_transfer(9)
• vmw_binding_state_kill(9)
• vmw_binding_state_scrub(9)
• vmw_binding_res_list_kill(9)
• vmw_binding_res_list_scrub(9)
• vmw_binding_state_commit(9)
• vmw_binding_rebind_all(9)
• vmw_binding_scrub_shader(9)
• vmw_binding_scrub_render_target(9)
• vmw_binding_scrub_texture(9)
• vmw_binding_scrub_dx_shader(9)
• vmw_binding_scrub_cb(9)
• vmw_collect_dirty_view_ids(9)
• vmw_emit_set_sr(9)
• vmw_emit_set_rt(9)
• vmw_collect_so_targets(9)
• vmw_emit_set_so_target(9)
• vmw_binding_emit_dirty_ps(9)
• vmw_collect_dirty_vbs(9)
• vmw_emit_set_vb(9)
• vmw_binding_emit_dirty(9)
• vmw_binding_scrub_sr(9)
• vmw_binding_scrub_dx_rt(9)
• vmw_binding_scrub_so_target(9)
• vmw_binding_scrub_vb(9)
• vmw_binding_scrub_ib(9)
• vmw_binding_scrub_so(9)
• vmw_binding_state_alloc(9)
• vmw_binding_state_free(9)
• vmw_binding_state_list(9)
• vmw_binding_state_reset(9)
• vmw_binding_dirtying(9)

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and that's the whole page, bestie — 100% of the facts, 0% of the boring 🫶

this icon lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, the source is the Kernel API Manual, and she was dated October 2026 — so go forth and collect those view ids, iykyk 💜🎀