vmw_surface_reference_ioctl(9)

💅 vmw_surface_reference_ioctl(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — this page is all about vmw_surface_reference_ioctl(9), and the vibe check is: kernel ioctl main character energy, no cap 🫶. It's an ioctl function doing user surface reference functionality, and yes, it ate 💖.

✨ NAME ✨

vmw_surface_reference_ioctl — the ioctl function implementing the user surface reference functionality. That's the whole name section, iconic behavior only 💅.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lowkey the whole signature, keep it exact bestie:

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

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — a pointer to a struct drm_device. That's the device struct, bestie 🖥️✨
• data — a pointer to the data copied from / to user-space. Literally the user-space data handoff zone 🙈💫
• file_priv — a pointer to a drm file private structure. The private file struct, iconic as ever 🎀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file: ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c — yes, that one, periodt 📁💅

Then the whole reference squad, highkey not one skipped, fr fr:

• 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_define_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)

✨ source: ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx • date/version: October 2026 • man page: vmw_surface_reference_ioctl(9) 💖 slay, bye bestie 💅