handle_logical_growth_error(9)

🦋 handle_logical_growth_error(9) — Kernel API Manual 🦋

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and today's main character is handle_logical_growth_error. Yes the whole page is like four lines of facts and then a novel of see-alsos, and honestly? iconic behaviour. let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

handle_logical_growth_error — Handle an error during the grow physical process.

fr fr that's the one-liner straight from the page: name says logical, description says physical. not me pointing it out, just reporting the facts 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void handle_logical_growth_error (struct vdo_completion *completion );

that's it. that's the whole call. void in, vibes out ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• completion — The admin completion. yeah. that's the entire description. she's mysterious, she's brief, she's giving minimal effort but we respect it 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

bestie. sit down. hydrate. this list is long and every single one of these is living rent-free in the same 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)
• handle_load_error(9)
• write_super_block_for_resume(9)
• resume_callback(9)
• grow_logical_callback(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)

no cap, that's the whole squad 💀 go read a couple, i'll wait 🍓

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👑 the cute sign-off 👑

source / version: ./drivers/md/dm-vdo — October 2026 — and the page itself is handle_logical_growth_error(9), in case you scrolled all the way down here and forgot what you were reading 💖

that's the page!! mwah, go handle those errors responsibly ✨🧚