allocate_buckets(9)

okay so this is allocate_buckets(9), straight from the Kernel API Manual 💅 and it's here to help your bestie understand one very specific little kernel function. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

allocate_buckets — initialize an int_map. that's the whole mission, bestie 🫶

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

int allocate_buckets (struct int_map *map , size_t capacity );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• map — the map to initialize. yes, this is the map getting its moment ✨
• capacity — the initial capacity of the map. it's literally the starting capacity 🎀

🔥 RETURN 🔥

VDO_SUCCESS or an error code. that's it, no cap 💀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the original points you at this kernel file:

• Kernel file ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/int-map.c

and these friends, all iconic in their own right 👑:

• Introduction(9)
• struct bucket(9)
• struct int_map(9)
• mix(9)
• hash_key(9)
• vdo_int_map_create(9)
• vdo_int_map_free(9)
• vdo_int_map_size(9)
• dereference_hop(9)
• insert_in_hop_list(9)
• select_bucket(9)
• search_hop_list(9)
• vdo_int_map_get(9)
• resize_buckets(9)
• find_empty_bucket(9)
• move_empty_bucket(9)
• update_mapping(9)
• find_or_make_vacancy(9)
• vdo_int_map_put(9)
• vdo_int_map_remove(9)

mwah 💖 this page comes from ./drivers/md/dm-vdo, dated October 2026, and it's allocate_buckets(9) — bye bestie! 🎀