blk_abort_request(9)

✨ blk_abort_request(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so this is blk_abort_request(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and we are gonna get you comfy with it, bestie. no cap 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

blk_abort_request — request recovery for the specified command. that's the whole vibe, periodt.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void blk_abort_request (struct request *req );

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💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• req — pointer to the request of interest, bestie. that's the one we're talking about 🫶

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so this function requests that the block layer start recovery for the request by deleting the timer and calling the q's timeout function. literally that's what it does ✨

LLDDs who implement their own error recovery MAY ignore the timeout event if they generated blk_abort_request. like, they're allowed to do their own thing there, iykyk 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./block/blk-timeout.c
• blk_add_timer(9)

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mwah 💋 this page is brought to you by source/version ./block, dated October 2026, and it's still blk_abort_request(9) at the very end. bye bestie 🫶💖