vmw_sou_surface_clip(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, meet vmw_sou_surface_clip(9) — your Kernel API Manual callback for encoding a blit surface to screen cliprect. she's giving tiny-but-important helper energy 💅✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void vmw_sou_surface_clip (struct vmw_kms_dirty *dirty );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• dirty — the closure structure. that's the whole vibe, no extra args, just dirty 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

the way this function eats: it encodes a SVGASignedRect cliprect and updates the bounding box of the BLIT_SURFACE_TO_SCREEN command. literally doing her little cliprect-and-bounding-box moment, periodt 🌈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_scrn.c, plus the whole friend group:

• struct vmw_kms_sou_surface_dirty(9)
• vmw_sou_crtc_mode_set_nofb(9)
• vmw_sou_crtc_helper_prepare(9)
• vmw_sou_crtc_atomic_disable(9)
• vmw_sou_primary_plane_cleanup_fb(9)
• vmw_sou_primary_plane_prepare_fb(9)
• vmw_sou_plane_update_bo(9)
• vmw_sou_plane_update_surface(9)
• vmw_sou_surface_fifo_commit(9)
• vmw_kms_sou_do_surface_dirty(9)
• vmw_sou_bo_fifo_commit(9)
• vmw_sou_bo_clip(9)
• vmw_kms_sou_do_bo_dirty(9)
• vmw_sou_readback_fifo_commit(9)
• vmw_sou_readback_clip(9)
• vmw_kms_sou_readback(9)

that's the whole page, bestie. xoxo from ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, October 2026, on vmw_sou_surface_clip(9) 💖🦋