xe_device_create(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this is xe_device_create — the Kernel API Manual entry for it (yep, straight out of the Kernel API Manual, we love a documented kernel function 💅). It's the one that creates a brand-new &xe_device instance. That's literally the whole vibe. 🎀

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

here's the signature, copy it exactly, no cap:

struct xe_device * xe_device_create (struct pci_dev *pdev );

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💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• pdev — the parent pci_dev. like, the pci device that's gonna be this Xe device's parent. that's the one you hand over. 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what does it actually do, you ask? It allocates and initializes a device managed Xe device structure. that's it, that's the gig ✨ — allocate it, initialize it, and it's device managed, so the lifetime situation is handled. main character energy fr. 👑

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🌸 RETURN 🌸

• On success? You get a pointer to the new xe_device. slay. 💖
• On failure? It's an ERR_PTR. so check that thing before you dereference it, bestie, i'm begging 😭💀

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

the whole friend group, all of them, in order, no one gets left out 🫶:

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.c
• xe_file_get(9)
• xe_file_put(9)
• xe_is_xe_file(9)
• xe_device_is_admin_only(9)
• xe_device_init_early(9)
• xe_device_probe_early(9)
• xe_device_wmb(9)
• xe_device_is_l2_flush_optimized(9)
• xe_device_td_flush(9)
• xe_device_assert_mem_access(9)
• Xe Device Wedging(9)
• xe_device_set_wedged_method(9)
• xe_device_declare_wedged(9)
• xe_device_validate_wedged_mode(9)
• xe_wedged_mode_to_string(9)
• xe_device_asid_to_vm(9)

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and that's the page!! ✨ brought to you by ./drivers/gpu/drm/xe, dated October 2026, and yes the page is literally called xe_device_create(9) — ok bye, go create some devices 💜🦋