xe_validation_guard(9)

💖 xe_validation_guard(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🌸 this one's a kernel macro page, and it's genuinely so cute — it's all about setting up a transaction that cleans up after itself. main character energy fr fr ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

xe_validation_guard — an auto-cleanup xe_validation_ctx transaction 💅

like, it's the guard that handles the cleanup so you don't have to. the way that works? iconic.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

xe_validation_guard (_ctx , _val , _exec , _flags , _ret );

that's the whole vibe check right there 👑

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• _ctx — the xe_validation_ctx. that's your context bestie, hold onto it 💜
• _val — the xe_validation_device. the device in question, no cap.
• _exec — the struct drm_exec object. literally the exec object, nothing more, nothing less.
• _flags — the flags for the xe_validation_ctx initialization. your settings, your rules 🎀
• _ret — a return in / out parameter. heads up: this macro may set it. typically 0 when called — so don't come in already weird about it 🙈

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

okay so here's the tea ☕ — this macro is gonna initiate a drm_exec transaction with additional support for exhaustive eviction. that's the whole point, and honestly? obsessed. it just does the thing and handles itself. 🫶

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

kernel file: ./drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_validation.h

also go peek at:

• xe_validation_lockdep(9)
• struct xe_validation_device(9)
• struct xe_val_flags(9)
• struct xe_validation_ctx(9)
• xe_validation_retry_on_oom(9)
• xe_validation_device_init(9)

iykyk — the whole little family, all of them slay 💅

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and that's the page!! mwah 💋 this one lives at ./drivers/gpu/drm/xe, dated October 2026, and yes it's still xe_validation_guard(9) — periodt. 🧚‍♀️✨