xe_guc_softreset(9)

✨ xe_guc_softreset(9) ✨ — Kernel API Manual

bestie, you found the xe_guc_softreset(9) page and it's literally about soft resetting the GuC. Buckle up, it's short and cute 🎀

💖 NAME 💖

xe_guc_softreset - Soft reset GuC

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int xe_guc_softreset (struct xe_guc *guc );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• guc — The GuC object. She's the one and only argument, and yes she's a struct xe_guc * in the synopsis 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so the move here is: send a soft reset command to GuC through mmio send. That's the whole description, no cap. It's giving "one job and she's doing it" ✨

👑 RETURN 👑

Returns 0 if success, otherwise error code.

So bestie, 0 means success and slay; anything else is an error code and we handle it 😭🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc.c, plus these linked besties:

• xe_guc_comm_init_early(9)
• xe_guc_init_post_hwconfig(9)
• xe_guc_min_load_for_hwconfig(9)
• xe_guc_runtime_suspend(9)
• xe_guc_runtime_resume(9)
• xe_guc_declare_wedged(9)
• xe_guc_using_main_gamctrl_queues(9)
• xe_hwe_guc_logical_instance(9)

Source/version: ./drivers/gpu/drm/xe; date: October 2026; manual page: xe_guc_softreset(9). Byeee bestie, stay soft-reset-ready 💜🦋✨