continue_committed_waiter(9)

💅 continue_committed_waiter(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for continue_committed_waiter(9) — this is literally the group-chat explainer for a VIO getting released from the journal because its entry was committed to disk 🫶 no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

continue_committed_waiter — invoked whenever a VIO is to be released from the journal because its entry was committed to disk 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void continue_committed_waiter (struct vdo_waiter *waiter , void
       *context );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• waiter — the data_vio waiting on a journal write 👀 main character energy.
• context — a pointer to the recovery journal 📒

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bestie, this one is short and sweet: it implements waiter_callback_fn 😌✨ that’s the whole flex, and honestly? iconic.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay the cross-reference list is huge and we are not skipping a single one — every name, no cap:

• Kernel file ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/recovery-journal.c Lock Counters.(9)
• get_zone_count_ptr(9)
• get_counter(9)
• is_journal_zone_locked(9)
• vdo_release_recovery_journal_block_reference(9)
• pop_free_list(9)
• is_block_dirty(9)
• is_block_empty(9)
• is_block_full(9)
• assert_on_journal_thread(9)
• continue_waiter(9)
• has_block_waiters(9)
• suspend_lock_counter(9)
• check_for_drain_complete(9)
• notify_recovery_journal_of_read_only_mode(9)
• enter_journal_read_only_mode(9)
• vdo_get_recovery_journal_current_sequence_number(9)
• get_recovery_journal_head(9)
• compute_recovery_count_byte(9)
• check_slab_journal_commit_threshold(9)
• finish_reaping(9)
• complete_reaping(9)
• handle_flush_error(9)
• initialize_journal_state(9)
• vdo_get_recovery_journal_length(9)
• reap_recovery_journal_callback(9)
• initialize_lock_counter(9)
• set_journal_tail(9)
• initialize_recovery_block(9)
• vdo_decode_recovery_journal(9)
• vdo_free_recovery_journal(9)
• vdo_initialize_recovery_journal_post_repair(9)
• vdo_get_journal_block_map_data_blocks_used(9)
• vdo_get_recovery_journal_thread_id(9)
• vdo_open_recovery_journal(9)
• vdo_record_recovery_journal(9)
• get_block_header(9)
• set_active_sector(9)
• advance_tail(9)
• initialize_lock_count(9)
• prepare_to_assign_entry(9)
• schedule_block_write(9)
• release_journal_block_reference(9)
• assign_entry(9)
• recycle_journal_block(9)
• notify_commit_waiters(9)
• recycle_journal_blocks(9)
• complete_write(9)
• add_queued_recovery_entries(9)
• write_block(9)
• write_blocks(9)
• vdo_add_recovery_journal_entry(9)
• is_lock_locked(9)
• reap_recovery_journal(9)
• vdo_acquire_recovery_journal_block_reference(9)
• vdo_release_journal_entry_lock(9)
• vdo_drain_recovery_journal(9)
• resume_lock_counter(9)
• vdo_resume_recovery_journal(9)
• vdo_get_recovery_journal_logical_blocks_used(9)
• vdo_get_recovery_journal_statistics(9)
• dump_recovery_block(9)
• vdo_dump_recovery_journal_statistics(9)

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xoxo, your kernel bestie 💖 source/version: ./drivers/md/dm-vdo · date: October 2026 · title: continue_committed_waiter(9) 🎀