disk_flush_events(9)

✨ NAME ✨

disk_flush_events — schedule immediate event checking and flushing 🫶

okay so bestie, welcome to the disk_flush_events(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 💅 this one is short and iconic, so let’s get into it ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void disk_flush_events (struct gendisk *disk , unsigned int mask );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• disk — the disk you wanna check and flush events for 💖
• mask — the events you wanna flush ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Schedule immediate event checking on disk if it’s not blocked. Events in mask are scheduled to be cleared from the driver. Note that this doesn’t clear the events from disk->ev 👀

lowkey important: it schedules the clearing, but disk->ev itself is not cleared by this. no cap 💅

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💜 CONTEXT 💜

If mask is non-zero, this must be called with disk->open_mutex held 🔒

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./block/disk-events.c plus these besties:

• disk_block_events(9)
• disk_unblock_events(9)
• disk_clear_events(9)
• disk_check_media_change(9)
• disk_force_media_change(9)

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okay bye bestie, this page is from ./block, dated October 2026, and it’s literally the disk_flush_events(9) era 💅✨