vmw_validation_res_validate(9)

Okay bestie, welcome to the vmw_validation_res_validate(9) page — yes, that’s the Kernel API Manual energy ✨

💖 NAME 💖

vmw_validation_res_validate — validate all resources registered with the validation context. Like, all of them, no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int vmw_validation_res_validate (struct vmw_validation_context *ctx ,
bool intr );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• ctx — the validation context. That’s the main character here.
• intr — whether to perform waits interruptible if possible. So if it’s possible, the waits get the interruptible treatment 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here’s the important tea: before this function is called, all resource backup buffers must have been validated. Not “maybe,” not “later,” not “I forgot” — must have been validated 🫶

This function is the one that validates all resources registered with the validation context. It’s giving cleanup crew energy, honestly.

💅 RETURN 💅

• 0 — zero on success, iconic behavior ✨
• -ERESTARTSYS — if interrupted 😭
• a negative error code — on failure, which is never the vibe

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file: ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_validation.c — that’s the home base 🏠

And the whole friend group is: struct vmw_validation_bo_node(9), struct vmw_validation_res_node(9), vmw_validation_mem_alloc(9), vmw_validation_mem_free(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_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). Slay 🌈

Signing off from ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, dated October 2026 — this was vmw_validation_res_validate(9), mwah 💋🎀