gfs2_merge_trans(9)

💖 NAME 💖

gfs2_merge_trans — merge a new transaction into a cached transaction ✨

okay so bestie, this one is short and sweet and honestly kinda iconic: you've got a cached transaction just sitting there, and a brand-new transaction shows up, and this function's whole job is to merge them. That's it. That's the gig. 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void gfs2_merge_trans (struct gfs2_sbd *sdp , struct gfs2_trans *new );

no return value, she just does the thing and dips 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• sdp — the filesystem, like the actual struct gfs2_sbd of it all. it's giving "who am I doing this for" energy 💜
• new — New transaction to be merged. yes the parameter is literally named new, she's bold like that, we respect it 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

so this whole situation lives in the kernel file ./fs/gfs2/log.c, and if you wanna go down the rabbit hole (and you do, I can tell), here's the full squad — fr fr every single one of them:

• gfs2_struct2blk(9)
• gfs2_remove_from_ail(9)
• gfs2_ail1_start_one(9)
• gfs2_ail1_flush(9)
• gfs2_ail1_start(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_log_commit(9)
• gfs2_log_shutdown(9)
• gfs2_logd(9)

that's the whole group chat, no cap 🔥

and that's the tea, bestie 🍓 this page is from the Kernel API Manual, filed under ./fs/gfs2, dated October 2026, and you can cite it as gfs2_merge_trans(9) whenever you need to look smart at the function-name drop 💀✨ go merge those transactions, you absolute main character 🌈👑