finish_unlocking(9)

💅 finish_unlocking(9) — Kernel API Manual 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

finish_unlocking — Handle the result of the agent for the lock releasing a read lock on duplicate candidate. periodt 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the whole signature is giving “returns nothing, takes one completion pointer”:

void finish_unlocking (struct vdo_completion *completion );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• completion — The completion of the data_vio acting as the lock’s agent. that’s the one bestie 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This continuation is registered in unlock_duplicate_pbn. that’s the lore, fr fr 🌈

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

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Kernel file ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/dedupe.c, plus 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), 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), finish_locking(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).

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