vmw_validation_done(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 vmw_validation_done — the Kernel API Manual glow-up ✨

okay so bestie, picture this: it's vmw_validation_done(9), from the Kernel API Manual, and she is literally the "commit it, it's done" girlie of the vmwgfx validation saga 🎀. Say hi to the function that wraps up all your validation actions after your command submission actually succeeded — no cap, she's the closing credits.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void vmw_validation_done (struct vmw_validation_context *ctx , struct
       vmw_fence_obj *fence );

it's giving "two params, zero drama" ✨

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • ctx — the validation context, aka the main character of this whole operation 💅
  • fence — the fence you use to fence all the buffer objects that took part in the command submission. every single one, bestie, no stragglers 🔥

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

here's the tea, and it's genuinely the best news ever: the caller does NOT need to unref resources after calling this function. like, at all. she handles it. you're free 🦋 periodt.

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

so there's a whole friend group here and honestly they're all iconic 👑:

💀 reminder for the girlies in the back: read the SEE ALSO list, it's literally the whole squad. iykyk.

and that's the page, bestie 🌈 — brought to you straight out of ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx in October 2026 (yes, the date is giving time traveler 💫). mwah, go commit your validation actions 💖🌸🎀

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