finish_locking(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so this is finish_locking(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and hi bestie! 💖 It handles the result of the agent for the lock that’s attempting to obtain a PBN read lock on the candidate duplicate block. Slay.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void finish_locking (struct vdo_completion *completion );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• completion — the completion of the data_vio that attempted to get the read lock. That’s the whole vibe, no cap. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so literally: this continuation is registered in lock_duplicate_pbn. That’s the tea, bestie — it’s giving “registered there,” periodt. ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bestie, the cross-reference receipts are long and iconic — every single one is below, no skipping:

• Kernel file ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/dedupe.c
• Introduction(9)
• return_hash_lock_to_pool(9)
• vdo_get_duplicate_lock(9)
• hash_lock_key(9)
• get_hash_lock_state_name(9)
• assert_hash_lock_agent(9)
• set_duplicate_lock(9)
• dequeue_lock_waiter(9)
• set_hash_lock(9)
• exit_hash_lock(9)
• set_duplicate_location(9)
• retire_lock_agent(9)
• wait_on_hash_lock(9)
• abort_waiter(9)
• start_bypassing(9)
• finish_unlocking(9)
• unlock_duplicate_pbn(9)
• start_unlocking(9)
• finish_updating(9)
• start_updating(9)
• finish_deduping(9)
• acquire_lock(9)
• enter_forked_lock(9)
• fork_hash_lock(9)
• launch_dedupe(9)
• start_deduping(9)
• increment_stat(9)
• finish_verifying(9)
• start_verifying(9)
• lock_duplicate_pbn(9)
• start_locking(9)
• finish_writing(9)
• select_writing_agent(9)
• start_writing(9)
• finish_querying(9)
• start_querying(9)
• report_bogus_lock_state(9)
• vdo_continue_hash_lock(9)
• is_hash_collision(9)
• vdo_acquire_hash_lock(9)
• vdo_release_hash_lock(9)
• transfer_allocation_lock(9)
• vdo_share_compressed_write_lock(9)
• report_dedupe_timeouts(9)
• finish_index_operation(9)
• check_for_drain_complete(9)
• vdo_make_hash_zones(9)
• vdo_free_hash_zones(9)
• suspend_index(9)
• resume_index(9)
• vdo_resume_hash_zones(9)
• get_hash_zone_statistics(9)
• vdo_get_dedupe_statistics(9)
• vdo_select_hash_zone(9)
• dump_hash_lock(9)
• dump_hash_zone(9)
• vdo_dump_hash_zones(9)
• acquire_context(9)

mwah 💋 — brought to you by ./drivers/md/dm-vdo, dated October 2026, and it’s finish_locking(9) from the Kernel API Manual. bye bestie! 🎀