vmw_gb_surfa...erence_ioctl(9)

💅 vmw_gb_surface_reference_ioctl(9) — kernel API manual, but make it make sense ✨

okay so bestie, you're looking at the vmw_gb_surface_reference_ioctl(9) page from the kernel API manual — yes the title is a whole mouthful, we're gonna get through it together 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vmw_gb_surface_reference_ioctl — the ioctl function that implements the user surface reference functionality. that's it, that's the whole vibe ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int vmw_gb_surface_reference_ioctl (struct drm_device *dev , void *data
, struct drm_file *file_priv );

literally the whole signature, no cap 🔥

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• dev — pointer to a struct drm_device. the big boss struct, she's in charge 💅
• data — pointer to data copied from / to user-space. round-trip data, going both ways, we love a commuter 😭
• file_priv — pointer to a drm file private structure. the private one, iykyk 🙈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c — and bestie, the friend list is LONG, buckle up:

• struct vmw_user_surface(9)
• struct vmw_surface_offset(9)
• struct vmw_surface_dirty(9)
• vmw_surface_dma_size(9)
• vmw_surface_define_size(9)
• vmw_surface_destroy_size(9)
• vmw_surface_destroy_encode(9)
• vmw_surface_define_encode(9)
• vmw_surface_dma_encode(9)
• vmw_hw_surface_destroy(9)
• vmw_legacy_srf_create(9)
• vmw_legacy_srf_dma(9)
• vmw_legacy_srf_bind(9)
• vmw_legacy_srf_unbind(9)
• vmw_legacy_srf_destroy(9)
• vmw_surface_init(9)
• vmw_user_surface_base_to_res(9)
• vmw_user_surface_free(9)
• vmw_user_surface_base_release(9)
• vmw_surface_destroy_ioctl(9)
• vmw_surface_define_ioctl(9)
• vmw_surface_reference_ioctl(9)
• vmw_gb_surface_create(9)
• vmw_gb_surface_define_ioctl(9)
• vmw_gb_surface_define_ext_ioctl(9)
• vmw_gb_surface_reference_ext_ioctl(9)
• vmw_gb_surface_define_internal(9)
• vmw_gb_surface_reference_internal(9)
• vmw_subres_dirty_add(9)
• vmw_subres_dirty_full(9)
• vmw_dumb_create(9)

that's the whole squad, every single one of them 💜

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ngl bestie, this page is short but she's iconic — no warnings, no exit statuses, no bugs listed, just vibes and pointers ✨

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and that's a wrap! 🌈 this little gem lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx and the page is dated October 2026 — so yeah, slightly future-core of her 💅 slay, go read some source code, periodt 🎀