xe_tile_alloc(9)

✨ xe_tile_alloc(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, bestie — xe_tile_alloc(9) — and it's short but it's iconic, let's get into it 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

xe_tile_alloc — perform per-tile memory allocation

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int xe_tile_alloc (struct xe_tile *tile );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• tile — the tile you're doing all these allocations for 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So what it does is it allocates the various per-tile data structures, and it does it using DRM-managed allocations. That's the whole vibe.

Important bestie note: it does not touch the hardware. like, at all. purely a bookkeeping moment 🙈

Returns -ENOMEM if the allocations fail, otherwise 0. slay 💀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tile.c
• Multi-tile Design(9)
• xe_tile_alloc_vram(9)
• xe_tile_init_early(9)
• xe_tile_init_noalloc(9)
• xe_tile_local_pagemap(9)

and that's the whole page, periodt 🎀 this little gem lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/xe and it's dated October 2026 — go read the whole thing, iykyk 🌈💜