vmw_surface_define_ioctl(9)

💅 NAME 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the vmw_surface_define_ioctl(9) page in the Kernel API Manual ✨ — this is the ioctl function that implements the user surface define functionality. No cap, that’s literally the whole vibe of this one.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int vmw_surface_define_ioctl (struct drm_device *dev , void *data ,
       struct drm_file *file_priv );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — pointer to a struct drm_device, aka the DRM device hanging out here 🫶
• data — pointer to data copied from / to user-space, doing its little back-and-forth thing 💫
• file_priv — pointer to a drm file private structure, the file’s lil private corner 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

bestie, the friend group is large — the kernel file is ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c, and here’s everyone else tagged in the group chat:

• struct vmw_user_surface(9)
• struct vmw_surface_offset(9)
• struct vmw_surface_dirty(9)
• vmw_surface_dma_size(9)
• vmw_surface_define_size(9)
• vmw_surface_destroy_size(9)
• vmw_surface_destroy_encode(9)
• vmw_surface_define_encode(9)
• vmw_surface_dma_encode(9)
• vmw_hw_surface_destroy(9)
• vmw_legacy_srf_create(9)
• vmw_legacy_srf_dma(9)
• vmw_legacy_srf_bind(9)
• vmw_legacy_srf_unbind(9)
• vmw_legacy_srf_destroy(9)
• vmw_surface_init(9)
• vmw_user_surface_base_to_res(9)
• vmw_user_surface_free(9)
• vmw_user_surface_base_release(9)
• vmw_surface_destroy_ioctl(9)
• vmw_surface_reference_ioctl(9)
• vmw_gb_surface_create(9)
• vmw_gb_surface_define_ioctl(9)
• vmw_gb_surface_reference_ioctl(9)
• vmw_gb_surface_define_ext_ioctl(9)
• vmw_gb_surface_reference_ext_ioctl(9)
• vmw_gb_surface_define_internal(9)
• vmw_gb_surface_reference_internal(9)
• vmw_subres_dirty_add(9)
• vmw_subres_dirty_full(9)
• vmw_dumb_create(9)

okay that’s the whole page, bestie 💖 — this cutie comes from ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, and the date on it is October 2026. slay, periodt 🌈✨