finish_updat...ummary_block(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 finish_updating_slab_summary_block — a Kernel API Manual moment ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, where we learn how to finish what a slab summary block started 🎀 this one is finish_updating_slab_summary_block(9) and it's literally the "okay we're wrapping up, no matter how it went" page 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

finish_updating_slab_summary_block — finish processing a block which attempted to write, whether or not the attempt succeeded 💅

like, the attempt happened. that's the whole vibe. we're closing it out either way, no cap 🔥

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void finish_updating_slab_summary_block (struct slab_summary_block
       *block );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • block — the block. that's it. that's the argument. she's the block 💖

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

bestie, the friend group here is huge — this function rolls deep, so here's the entire guest list, fr fr 🌈

also the kernel file itself is ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/slab-depot.c — that's where the magic lives, iykyk 💜

🧚 tiny note, bestie: the whole point of this one is that it finishes processing a block that attempted a write — and it does that whether or not the attempt succeeded. no take-backs, no "well actually", we finish it. periodt 💅

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓💖 this was brought to you by the fine folks over at ./drivers/md/dm-vdo, dated October 2026 — mwah, love u, see u in the next manpage 🌸👑

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