advance_points(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ advance_points(9) — the advance_points glow-up ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the advance_points(9) era — it's a Kernel API Manual moment and honestly it's giving very niche-but-iconic 💅. This one lives in the kernel's recovery/journal world and it's here to move things forward, no cap.

It's literally the function that advances the current recovery and journal points. Periodt.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void advance_points (struct repair_completion *repair ,
       journal_entry_count_t entries_per_block );

Like, that's the whole signature. She's short but she's serving. 🔥

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • repair — the repair_completion whose points are gonna get advanced. That's it, that's the vibe. She picked her main character and now she's moving it forward 💫.
  • entries_per_block — the number of entries in a recovery journal block. Just a count, but make it count, y'know? 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this list is long and honestly every one of these is a little celebrity in this cinematic universe. Kernel file ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/repair.c plus, like, everyone:

as_repair_completion(9), abort_repair(9), abort_on_error(9), drain_slab_depot(9), flush_block_map_updates(9), handle_page_load_error(9), unmap_entry(9), remove_out_of_bounds_entries(9), process_slot(9), rebuild_reference_counts_from_page(9), page_loaded(9), fetch_page(9), rebuild_from_leaves(9), process_entry(9), before_recovery_point(9), get_entry(9), validate_recovery_journal_entry(9), add_slab_journal_entries(9), vdo_replay_into_slab_journals(9), find_entry_starting_next_page(9), get_recovery_journal_block_header(9), is_valid_recovery_journal_block(9), is_exact_recovery_journal_block(9), find_recovery_journal_head_and_tail(9), unpack_entry(9), append_sector_entries(9), extract_new_mappings(9), compute_usages(9), vdo_repair(9)

fr fr, that's the whole friend group. iykyk 🫶

no warnings, no bugs, no environment variables on this one — she's lowkey simple and we respect that ✨

💖 that's the page, bestie! 💖 sourced from ./drivers/md/dm-vdo, dated October 2026 — catch you on the next manpage, mwah 🎀🦋

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