xe_hw_fence_free(9)

💅 xe_hw_fence_free — the Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is xe_hw_fence_free, straight out of the kernel API manual, and honestly? She's a little icon of destruction. Let me tell you everything 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

xe_hw_fence_free — literally frees an hw fence. That's it, that's the whole job. No cap 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void xe_hw_fence_free (struct dma_fence *fence );

Like, that's the whole signature. One arg, void return, and off she goes 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• fence — Pointer to the fence to free. Just a pointer. To a struct dma_fence. That's the vibe check and she passed ✨

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Frees an hw fence that hasn't yet been initialized.

Bestie, read that twice: hasn't yet been initialized. This is the pre-glow-up cleanup, not the "she's already living her best life" cleanup. So don't be out here freeing fences that have already been initialized, mmkay? 🙈

Otherwise she's real simple and real iconic: you hand her a fence pointer, she frees it. Main character energy, minimal dialogue 🔥

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_hw_fence.c — go read the source, it's giving transparency 💜
• xe_hw_fence_alloc(9) — the one who makes the fence (the origin story ⭐)
• xe_hw_fence_init(9) — the one who initializes it (the glow-up 🌈)

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🌟 the cute sign-off 🌟

This little page lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/xe, and it's stamped October 2026 in the manual's source/version footer. So yes, she's dated October 2026, she's from the xe driver directory, and she's out here freeing uninitialized hw fences. Slay, honestly 🍓🧚

periodt. 💖