gfs2_ail1_start(9)

💖 gfs2_ail1_start — bestie's guide to kicking off that writeback 💖

Okay so real talk, this one lives in the Kernel API Manual (very official, very demure), and it's called gfs2_ail1_start. Say it with me: ail-one-start. It's giving "wake up, the AIL is not gonna flush itself." ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

gfs2_ail1_start — starts writeback of all the ail1 entries. All of them. Not some. Not the cute ones. All. 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void gfs2_ail1_start (struct gfs2_sbd *sdp );

That's the whole signature, bestie — no return value, it just goes and does the thing. Void, no cap. 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• sdp — the superblock. Like, the superblock. Hand it over and it's go time, okay? 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Buckle up, because this list is long and honestly iconic — the whole log.c friend group showed up. The kernel file is ./fs/gfs2/log.c and the whole squad is in there:

• gfs2_struct2blk(9)
• gfs2_remove_from_ail(9)
• gfs2_ail1_start_one(9)
• gfs2_ail1_flush(9)
• gfs2_ail1_empty_one(9)
• gfs2_ail1_empty(9)
• gfs2_log_is_empty(9)
• gfs2_log_release_revokes(9)
• gfs2_log_release(9)
• __gfs2_log_try_reserve(9)
• __gfs2_log_reserve(9)
• gfs2_log_try_reserve(9)
• gfs2_log_reserve(9)
• log_distance(9)
• calc_reserved(9)
• gfs2_flush_revokes(9)
• gfs2_write_log_header(9)
• log_write_header(9)
• gfs2_ail_drain(9)
• empty_ail1_list(9)
• gfs2_trans_drain(9)
• __gfs2_log_flush(9)
• gfs2_merge_trans(9)
• gfs2_log_commit(9)
• gfs2_log_shutdown(9)
• gfs2_logd(9)

Go read them all, you know you want to. Main character energy, every single one. 📚✨

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Lowkey a reminder: this is kernel-internal territory, so mind your sdp — it's literally the superblock and the function is void. No do-overs, no error return. 🙈

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And that's the whole page, bestie — short and slay. This cutie is filed under ./fs/gfs2 in the Kernel API Manual, dated October 2026, and it's gfs2_ail1_start(9) through and through. Go flush something. 💜🎀