vmw_resource_alloc_id(9)

✨ vmw_resource_alloc_id ✨

okay bestie, so this is from the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — it's the vmw_resource_alloc_id page and it's shorter than my attention span after 2am but we're gonna make it iconic anyway 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vmw_resource_alloc_id — release a resource id to the id manager.

(yes, that's what the page literally says. i don't make the rules, i just make them cute 🎀)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int vmw_resource_alloc_id (struct vmw_resource *res );

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• res — Pointer to the resource. literally just a pointer, bestie. it points. at a resource. that's the whole vibe 🫶

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so what it actually does: it allocates the lowest free resource from the resource manager, and then it sets res->id to that id. stealing the smallest available spot, no cap. very "i'll take the first open seat in the lecture hall" energy 🍓

Return value tea ☕:

• returns 0 on success — slay, we ate ✨
• returns -ENOMEM on failure — RIP, out of memory, the malloc said no 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_resource.c
• vmw_resource_mob_attach(9)
• vmw_resource_mob_detach(9)
• vmw_resource_release_id(9)
• vmw_resource_init(9)
• vmw_user_resource_lookup_handle(9)
• vmw_resource_buf_alloc(9)
• vmw_resource_do_validate(9)
• vmw_resource_unreserve(9)
• vmw_resource_check_buffer(9)
• vmw_resource_backoff_reservation(9)
• vmw_resource_do_evict(9)
• vmw_resource_validate(9)
• vmw_resource_unbind_list(9)
• vmw_query_readback_all(9)
• vmw_query_move_notify(9)
• vmw_resource_needs_backup(9)
• vmw_resource_evict_type(9)
• vmw_resource_evict_all(9)
• vmw_resource_unpin(9)
• vmw_res_type(9)
• vmw_resource_dirty_update(9)
• vmw_resources_clean(9)

like, the whole squad. the entire friend group chat of vmwgfx functions showed up 🌈

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heads up bestie: the name says "release a resource id" while the description says "allocate the lowest free resource." i'm not saying anything, i'm just saying what the page says. read it, don't @ me 💀

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k bye babes 🧚 this one's served up from ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx in October 2026, and yeah, the footer said vmw_resource_alloc_id(9) one more time because it loves a dramatic exit 💜✨