vmw_validation_mem_free(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to vmw_validation_mem_free(9) — that's the page, and it lives in the Kernel API Manual. The short version: vmw_validation_mem_free frees all the memory that was allocated using vmw_validation_mem_alloc(). No cap, that's the whole name vibe. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature is literally:

void vmw_validation_mem_free (struct vmw_validation_context *ctx );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• ctx — the validation context. one arg, one job, iconic. 🎀

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so here's the tea: all memory that was previously allocated for this context using vmw_validation_mem_alloc is freed. all of it. it's giving cleanup era — the context's allocated memory gets released, periodt. 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go peek at the rest of the squad:

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_validation.c
• struct vmw_validation_bo_node(9)
• struct vmw_validation_res_node(9)
• vmw_validation_mem_alloc(9)
• vmw_validation_find_bo_dup(9)
• vmw_validation_find_res_dup(9)
• vmw_validation_add_bo(9)
• vmw_validation_add_resource(9)
• vmw_validation_res_set_dirty(9)
• vmw_validation_res_switch_backup(9)
• vmw_validation_res_reserve(9)
• vmw_validation_res_unreserve(9)
• vmw_validation_bo_validate_single(9)
• vmw_validation_bo_validate(9)
• vmw_validation_res_validate(9)
• vmw_validation_drop_ht(9)
• vmw_validation_unref_lists(9)
• vmw_validation_prepare(9)
• vmw_validation_revert(9)
• vmw_validation_done(9)
• vmw_validation_preload_bo(9)
• vmw_validation_preload_res(9)
• vmw_validation_bo_backoff(9)

and yes, that's every single one — no skips, no crumbs. 🫶

that's the whole page, bestie. source/version: /drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx · date: October 2026 mwah 💋