add_entries(9)

💅 add_entries(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment

okay so welcome to add_entries(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? she's giving “tiny function, very important queue behavior” energy 🫶

✨ NAME

add_entries — add as many entries as possible from the queue of vios waiting to make entries. that's the whole vibe, bestie 💖

🫶 SYNOPSIS

void add_entries (struct slab_journal *journal );

🌸 ARGUMENTS

• journal — the journal to which entries may be added. yes, that journal. the one and only 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION

okay picture it: there's a queue of vios waiting to make entries, and this function is gonna process that queue in order. and why do we care about the order? because by processing the queue in order, we ensure that slab journal entries are made in the same order as recovery journal entries for the same increment or decrement. no cap, order matters here 🔥

🎀 SEE ALSO

Kernel file: ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/slab-depot.c — that's where the whole squad lives, and here's every single SEE ALSO bestie, no skips, no misses 💅

• get_lock(9), must_make_entries_to_flush(9), is_reaping(9), initialize_tail_block(9), initialize_journal_state(9), block_is_full(9), is_slab_journal_blank(9), mark_slab_journal_dirty(9), compute_fullness_hint(9), check_summary_drain_complete(9), notify_summary_waiters(9), finish_updating_slab_summary_block(9), finish_update(9), handle_write_error(9), launch_write(9), update_slab_summary_entry(9)
• finish_reaping(9), complete_reaping(9), handle_flush_error(9), flush_for_reaping(9), reap_slab_journal(9), adjust_slab_journal_block_reference(9), release_journal_locks(9), update_tail_block_location(9), reopen_slab_journal(9), complete_write(9), write_slab_journal_block(9), commit_tail(9), encode_slab_journal_entry(9), expand_journal_point(9), add_entry(9), vdo_attempt_replay_into_slab(9)
• requires_reaping(9), launch_reference_block_write(9), finish_reference_block_write(9), get_reference_counters_for_block(9), pack_reference_block(9), handle_io_error(9), write_reference_block(9), reference_count_to_status(9), dirty_block(9), get_reference_block(9), slab_block_number_from_pbn(9), get_reference_counter(9), adjust_free_block_count(9), increment_for_data(9), decrement_for_data(9), increment_for_block_map(9)
• update_reference_count(9), add_entry_from_waiter(9), is_next_entry_a_block_map_increment(9), reset_search_cursor(9), advance_search_cursor(9), vdo_adjust_reference_count_for_rebuild(9), replay_reference_count_change(9), find_zero_byte_in_word(9), find_free_block(9), search_current_reference_block(9), search_reference_blocks(9), make_provisional_reference(9), dirty_all_reference_blocks(9), match_bytes(9), count_valid_references(9), unpack_reference_block(9)
• finish_reference_block_load(9), load_reference_block_group(9), load_reference_blocks(9), drain_slab(9), read_slab_journal_tail(9), load_slab_journal(9), get_next_slab(9), has_slabs_to_scrub(9), uninitialize_scrubber_vio(9), finish_scrubbing(9), slab_scrubbed(9), abort_scrubbing(9), handle_scrubber_error(9), apply_block_entries(9), apply_journal_entries(9), start_scrubbing(9)
• scrub_next_slab(9), scrub_slabs(9), get_depot_slab_iterator(9), next_slab(9), abort_waiter(9), vdo_acquire_provisional_reference(9), open_slab(9), vdo_enqueue_clean_slab_waiter(9), vdo_modify_reference_count(9), vdo_notify_slab_journals_are_recovered(9), make_slab(9), allocate_slabs(9), vdo_abandon_new_slabs(9), release_recovery_journal_lock(9), prepare_for_tail_block_commit(9), schedule_tail_block_commit(9)
• initialize_slab_scrubber(9), initialize_slab_summary_block(9), vdo_decode_slab_depot(9), vdo_free_slab_depot(9), vdo_record_slab_depot(9), vdo_allocate_reference_counters(9), get_slab_number(9), vdo_get_slab(9), vdo_get_increment_limit(9), vdo_is_physical_data_block(9), vdo_get_slab_depot_allocated_blocks(9), vdo_get_slab_depot_data_blocks(9), finish_combining_zones(9), combine_summaries(9), finish_loading_summary(9), load_slab_summary(9)
• vdo_load_slab_depot(9), vdo_prepare_slab_depot_to_allocate(9), vdo_update_slab_depot_size(9), vdo_prepare_to_grow_slab_depot(9), finish_registration(9), vdo_use_new_slabs(9), stop_scrubbing(9), vdo_drain_slab_depot(9), resume_scrubbing(9), vdo_resume_slab_depot(9), vdo_commit_oldest_slab_journal_tail_blocks(9), vdo_scrub_all_unrecovered_slabs(9), get_block_allocator_statistics(9), get_ref_counts_statistics(9), get_slab_journal_statistics(9), vdo_get_slab_depot_statistics(9), vdo_dump_slab_depot(9)

source/version: ./drivers/md/dm-vdo · date: October 2026 — mwah, bye bestie 💋✨