handle_load_error(9)

💖 handle_load_error(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual, bestie 💖

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? it's short but it matters. stay with me 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

handle_load_error — the girl whose whole job is "okay. okay. we don't panic. we handle an error during the load operation." 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void handle_load_error (struct vdo_completion *completion );

no cap, that's the whole signature. void return, one arg. iconic minimalism ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• completion — the admin completion. that's it, that's the vibe. it's the admin one 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like… if at all possible, this handler brings the vdo online in read-only mode. like, it's giving "we had a whole situation but we're still standing" energy 😭💪

and important detail, bestie: this handler is registered in vdo_preresume_registered. that's where you'll find her. she's on the list. 🫶

ngl the "if at all possible" is doing a lot of work in that sentence — it's not a promise, it's a best effort. the manpage says it, so I'm saying it. 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this list is LONG but I refuse to skip a single one of them, because they're all her friends and we don't do our friends dirty 🎀

• Kernel file ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/dm-vdo-target.c
• free_device_config(9)
• get_version_number(9)
• parse_bool(9)
• parse_memory(9)
• parse_slab_size(9)
• process_one_thread_config_spec(9)
• parse_one_thread_config_spec(9)
• parse_thread_config_string(9)
• process_one_key_value_pair(9)
• parse_one_key_value_pair(9)
• parse_key_value_pairs(9)
• parse_optional_arguments(9)
• handle_parse_error(9)
• parse_device_config(9)
• get_thread_id_for_phase(9)
• advance_phase(9)
• finish_operation_callback(9)
• decode_from_super_block(9)
• decode_vdo(9)
• pre_load_callback(9)
• get_bit_array_size(9)
• grow_bit_array(9)
• allocate_instance(9)
• check_may_grow_physical(9)
• grow_layout(9)
• validate_new_device_config(9)
• write_super_block_for_suspend(9)
• suspend_callback(9)
• was_new(9)
• requires_repair(9)
• get_load_type(9)
• load_callback(9)
• write_super_block_for_resume(9)
• resume_callback(9)
• grow_logical_callback(9)
• handle_logical_growth_error(9)
• perform_grow_logical(9)
• copy_partition(9)
• grow_physical_callback(9)
• handle_physical_growth_error(9)
• perform_grow_physical(9)
• apply_new_vdo_configuration(9)

that's forty-two entries, plus the file. I counted. don't ask. 💀✨

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mwah 💋 okay so that's the whole page. this one lives at ./drivers/md/dm-vdo, it's dated October 2026, and it answers to handle_load_error(9) if you ever need to holler at her. go read the SEE ALSO section, she left you like forty-two links and she will notice if you skip them 💜🎀🦋