vmw_mksstat_remove_all(9)

💅 vmw_mksstat_remove_all(9) — the Kernel API Manual page your group chat has been waiting for

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for vmw_mksstat_remove_all(9) — yes the whole name, yes it's a mouthful, no we're not shortening it, it's iconic ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vmw_mksstat_remove_all — the one that resets all the mksGuestStat instance descriptors straight from the hypervisor. like, all of them. every last one. periodt 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int vmw_mksstat_remove_all (struct vmw_private *dev_priv );

that's it, that's the whole vibe check 🦋

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• dev_priv — identifies the drm private device. it's literally the little name tag your device wears at the party so everyone knows who they're dealing with 💖

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so here's the tea ☕ — this function discards all the hypervisor PFN mappings that are holding the active mksGuestState instance descriptors. gone. not me cleaning house 🧹

then it unpins the related userspace pages and frees the related kernel pages. unpin, free, done, no cap. it's giving full cleanup main character energy 👑

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

• Zero on success 🎉
• a negative error code on error 😭

that's the whole scale, bestie — zero or sad 😔

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay this is the friend group, the whole squad, the entire crew — all of them live in the Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_msg.c:

• 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_get_kern_slot(9)
• vmw_mksstat_cleanup_descriptor(9)
• vmw_mksstat_reset_ioctl(9)
• vmw_mksstat_add_ioctl(9)
• vmw_mksstat_remove_ioctl(9)
• vmw_disable_backdoor(9)

go read them, iykyk 📚✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this cutie came from ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, October 2026 edition, and it slayed 💜💅