vmw_surface_...pixel_offset(9)

✨ NAME ✨

vmw_surface_get_pixel_offset — bestie, this one computes the offset (in bytes) to a pixel in an image (or volume) 💅 that's literally it, that's the whole gig

This is page vmw_surface_...pixel_offset(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? She's a queen of math 🧮👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

u32 vmw_surface_get_pixel_offset (SVGA3dSurfaceFormat format , u32 width
, u32 height , u32 x , u32 y , u32 z );

Notice how she takes u32 six whole times and still returns a u32? That's main character energy fr fr 🔥

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

Ok so let's do the vibe check on every single parameter, no skipping, no cap:

• format — the manpage literally just says -- undescribed -- 😭 like bestie... she said "no thoughts, head empty." Not me leaving a placeholder in the docs 🙈 (ngl whoever wrote this one left a few of these open, keep reading, you'll see)
• width — the image width in pixels 💖
• height — the image height in pixels (no trailing period, she's built different, we respect it)
• x — -- undescribed -- 😭 the mystery coordinate
• y — -- undescribed -- another mystery coordinate, we love an enigma 🦋
• z — -- undescribed -- the third mystery coordinate!! (yes that's why the NAME line says "or volume" — 3D behaviour confirmed, iykyk 💀)

Lowkey a warning for real: four out of six arguments are listed as -- undescribed -- in the original. I'm not gonna invent lore for them, because guessing at behaviour is a red flag 🚩 so just... know that the docs are giving "unfinished Google Doc at 3am" here.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The kernel file she lives in (her address, her whole vibe):

./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmw_surface_cache.h

And the entire friend group 🫶 besties, compatriots, the whole group chat:

• vmw_surface_get_desc(9)
• vmw_surface_get_mip_size(9)
• vmw_surface_get_image_buffer_size(9)
• vmw_surface_get_serialized_size(9)
• vmw_surface_get_serialized_size_extended(9)
• vmw_surface_is_gb_screen_target_format(9)
• vmw_surface_is_dx_screen_target_format(9)
• vmw_surface_is_screen_target_format(9)
• struct vmw_surface_mip(9)
• struct vmw_surface_cache(9)
• struct vmw_surface_loc(9)
• vmw_surface_subres(9)
• vmw_surface_setup_cache(9)
• vmw_surface_get_loc(9)
• vmw_surface_inc_loc(9)
• vmw_surface_min_loc(9)

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Ok that's the whole page, you ate that bestie 💅✨ This absolute icon lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, dated October 2026, and yes — the header and footer both say vmw_surface_...pixel_offset(9) which is a lot of dots but we move 🎀🦋💜