vmw_user_bo_lookup(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 vmw_user_bo_lookup(9) 💖

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual — yes bestie, we're in the kernel docs now, put your hair up, it's giving main character energy 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

vmw_user_bo_lookup — look up a vmw user buffer object from a handle 🔍

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int vmw_user_bo_lookup (struct drm_file *filp , u32 handle , struct
vmw_bo **out );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • filp — the file that the handle is registered with 🗂️
  • handle — the user buffer object handle, iykyk
  • out — pointer to a where a pointer to the embedded struct vmw_bo should be placed 💫 (yes, pointer-to-a-pointer, she's fancy like that)

⭐ RETURN ⭐

Zero on success 🎉 Negative error code on error 😭

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

The vmw buffer object pointer will be refcounted — both ttm and gem, no cap, double the refcount, double the responsibility 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

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

✨ and that's the whole page, periodt ✨

drop from ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, dated October 2026 — this queen lives in the vmw_user_bo_lookup(9) section of the manual, mwah 💋 🎀

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