disk_clear_events(9)

💅 disk_clear_events — like, the kernel API manual bestie 🎀

okay so we're in the Kernel API Manual today, and the function we're stanning is disk_clear_events(9). she's a synchronously-checking, event-clearing icon and honestly? she ate. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

disk_clear_events — synchronously check, clear, and return pending events. bestie she does all three, no cap 💖

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

unsigned int disk_clear_events (struct gendisk *disk , unsigned int mask
);

literally the whole signature. she takes two things and hands you back an unsigned int. slay 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• disk — the disk you wanna fetch and clear events from. that's your main character right there 👑
• mask — the mask of events to be fetched and cleared. it's giving "which events, exactly" energy 💅

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so the vibe is: disk events get synchronously checked, and whatever pending events are sitting in mask get cleared and returned. that's it, that's the whole gig ✨

and the little detail everyone forgets: this ignores the block count. not me pointing that out, but like, i am 🫶 it's really important ykno

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💜 CONTEXT 💜

Might sleep. 😴 that's the entire context section, she's a woman of few words and honestly? iconic. just know that she might sleep, so plan accordingly 🙈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./block/disk-events.c
• disk_block_events(9)
• disk_unblock_events(9)
• disk_flush_events(9)
• disk_check_media_change(9)
• disk_force_media_change(9)

go read the whole friend group, they're all lowkey obsessed with each other 💖

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okay that's the page!! mwah 💋 this one lives in ./block, it's the October 2026 edition, and it's officially disk_clear_events(9) — stan her, follow her, read her siblings 🎀✨🦋