vmw_mksstat_get_kern_slot(9)

🎀 vmw_mksstat_get_kern_slot(9) 🎀

okay bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for vmw_mksstat_get_kern_slot(9). It’s a little kernel API moment: grabbing a slot for one kernel-internal mksGuestStat instance descriptor. no cap, we’re getting into it. 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

vmw_mksstat_get_kern_slot — acquires a slot for a single kernel-internal mksGuestStat instance descriptor. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int vmw_mksstat_get_kern_slot (pid_t pid , struct vmw_private *dev_priv
);

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pid — the process for which a slot is sought. literally the process in question.
• dev_priv — identifies the drm private device. that’s the whole vibe.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So the mission is: find a slot for a single kernel-internal mksGuestStat instance descriptor. If no such slot was already present, it allocates a new one and sets up a kernel-internal mksGuestStat instance descriptor for the former. That’s the whole glow-up. ✨

🌈 RETURN 🌈

• Success: non-negative slot on success. slay. ✅
• Error: negative error code on error. 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file: ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_msg.c — the whole bestie squad:

• vmw_open_channel(9)
• vmw_close_channel(9)
• vmw_port_hb_out(9)
• vmw_port_hb_in(9)
• vmw_send_msg(9)
• vmw_recv_msg(9)
• vmw_host_get_guestinfo(9)
• vmw_host_printf(9)
• vmw_msg_ioctl(9)
• reset_ppn_array(9)
• hypervisor_ppn_reset_all(9)
• hypervisor_ppn_add(9)
• hypervisor_ppn_remove(9)
• mksstat_init_record_time(9)
• mksstat_init_kern_id(9)
• vmw_mksstat_cleanup_descriptor(9)
• vmw_mksstat_remove_all(9)
• vmw_mksstat_reset_ioctl(9)
• vmw_mksstat_add_ioctl(9)
• vmw_mksstat_remove_ioctl(9)
• vmw_disable_backdoor(9)

mwah 💋 — this page’s source/version is ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, dated October 2026, and the page is vmw_mksstat_get_kern_slot(9). periodt. 🫶