vmw_surface_dma_encode(9)

🎀 vmw_surface_dma_encode(9) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for vmw_surface_dma_encode(9). it's literally about encoding a surface_dma command, and the whole page is short and iconic. ✨💅

✨ NAME ✨

vmw_surface_dma_encode — encode a surface_dma command. that's it, that's the name section, and it ate. 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void vmw_surface_dma_encode (struct vmw_surface *srf , void *cmd_space ,
const SVGAGuestPtr *ptr , bool to_surface );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• srf — a pointer to a struct vmw_surface object. the surface baddie in question, no cap. 🫶
• cmd_space — a pointer to the memory area where the commands should be encoded. that's the spot where the encoded command goes. ✨
• ptr — a pointer to an SVGAGuestPtr indicating where the surface contents should be placed or read from. so it's giving "location of the surface data" energy. 📍
• to_surface — a Boolean whether to DMA to the surface or from the surface. direction check, bestie, fr fr. 🦋

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

Kernel file: ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c

plus all these linked manual pages, bestie:

• 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_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_define_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)

and that's the whole page, bestie! the source/version is ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, the date is October 2026, and this page is vmw_surface_dma_encode(9). mwah 💋💖