vmw_kms_help...ation_finish(9)

✨ vmw_kms_helper_validation_finish(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💅 this is vmw_kms_help...ation_finish(9) and yes the title is literally truncated like that in the header, we don't make the rules, we just slay within them 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vmw_kms_helper_validation_finish — the helper that handles the post KMS command submission cleanup and the fencing 🧚 no cap, that's the whole job description

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void vmw_kms_helper_validation_finish (struct vmw_private *dev_priv ,
struct drm_file *file_priv , struct vmw_validation_context *ctx , struct
vmw_fence_obj **out_fence , struct drm_vmw_fence_rep __user *
user_fence_rep );

literally five arguments, returns void, iconic 🙈

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• dev_priv — pointer to the device-private struct. it's giving "everything you need to know about this device lives here" 👑
• file_priv — pointer that identifies the client, and it's the one that matters when user-space fencing is being used 🫶
• ctx — pointer to the validation context. the whole cleanup-and-fence vibe check happens around this bad boy ✨
• out_fence — if it's non-NULL, you get a refcounted fence pointer handed back to you. if it's NULL, well… you get nothing, and that's on you 💀
• user_fence_rep — if it's non-NULL, this is a pointer to a user-space address area where the user-space fence info gets copied. if it's NULL, no copy happens, simple as 🌸

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the Kernel file lives right here, go read it fr fr:

./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c

and here's the whole friend group, every single one of them, no skipping 🫶:

vmw_du_plane_unpin_surf(9), vmw_du_plane_cleanup_fb(9), vmw_du_primary_plane_atomic_check(9), vmw_du_crtc_duplicate_state(9), vmw_du_crtc_reset(9), vmw_du_crtc_destroy_state(9), vmw_du_plane_duplicate_state(9), vmw_du_plane_reset(9), vmw_du_plane_destroy_state(9), vmw_du_connector_duplicate_state(9), vmw_du_connector_reset(9), vmw_du_connector_destroy_state(9), vmw_kms_readback(9), vmw_kms_srf_ok(9), vmw_kms_new_framebuffer(9), vmw_kms_check_display_memory(9), vmw_crtc_state_and_lock(9), vmw_kms_check_implicit(9), vmw_kms_check_topology(9), vmw_kms_atomic_check_modeset(9), vmw_du_update_layout(9), vmw_guess_mode_timing(9), vmw_kms_update_layout_ioctl(9), vmw_kms_helper_dirty(9), vmw_kms_create_implicit_placement_property(9), vmw_kms_suspend(9), vmw_kms_resume(9), vmw_kms_lost_device(9), vmw_du_helper_plane_update(9), vmw_connector_mode_valid(9), vmw_connector_get_modes(9)

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and that's the page bestie 🎀 sign-off time: this one comes from the source ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, dated October 2026, and it's vmw_kms_help...ation_finish(9) all over again at the bottom because manpages love a symmetry moment 💖 go fence something responsibly 🦋