vmw_execbuf_unpin_panic(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🎀 vmw_execbuf_unpin_panic(9) 🎀

okay so this page is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's giving “rare error-path cleanup” energy. let's get into it, bestie 💅

💖 NAME 💖

vmw_execbuf_unpin_panic — idle the fifo and unpin the query buffer. that's it, that's the name, slay ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void vmw_execbuf_unpin_panic (struct vmw_private *dev_priv );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • dev_priv — The device private structure. your one and only argument, bestie 💜

😭 DESCRIPTION 😭

okay so picture this: vmw_execbuf_unpin_panic is called to idle the fifo and unpin the query buffer if the normal way to do this hits an error. and that error? should typically be extremely rare — like spotting a unicorn in your kernel logs 🦄. so yeah, it's the rare-path moment where the usual move goes sideways, and this function does the idle-the-fifo + unpin-the-query-buffer thing. no cap.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file to check out: ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c.

the whole squad, iykyk:

xoxo, your Unix bestie 💖 — source/version ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, dated October 2026. periodt. 🦋

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