protection_queue_destroy(9)

💅 protection_queue_destroy(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up

okay so bestie, welcome to the section 9 page for protection_queue_destroy — yes it's from the Kernel API Manual, and yes it's exactly as niche as it sounds. it's short, it's sweet, and it's giving "cleanup era" ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

protection_queue_destroy — literally just: destroy the protection queue. that's the whole vibe. no notes, she does one thing and she does it 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void protection_queue_destroy (struct ubi_device *ubi );

that's it. that's the signature. void in, void out — she returns nothing and she's not sorry about it 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• ubi — the UBI device description object 👑 this is the one and only thing you hand her. the UBI device description object. give her the device object, that's it, that's the assignment.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this is the part where the page pops off, because the see-also list is long and honestly kind of iconic. all of these live in the kernel file ./drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c:

wl_tree_add(9), wl_entry_destroy(9), do_work(9), in_wl_tree(9), in_pq(9), prot_queue_add(9), find_wl_entry(9), find_mean_wl_entry(9), wl_get_wle(9), prot_queue_del(9), ubi_sync_erase(9), serve_prot_queue(9), __schedule_ubi_work(9), schedule_ubi_work(9), schedule_erase(9), do_sync_erase(9), wear_leveling_worker(9), ensure_wear_leveling(9), __erase_worker(9), ubi_wl_put_peb(9), ubi_wl_scrub_peb(9), ubi_wl_flush(9), ubi_bitflip_check(9), tree_destroy(9), ubi_thread(9), shutdown_work(9), erase_aeb(9), ubi_wl_init(9), ubi_wl_close(9), self_check_ec(9), self_check_in_wl_tree(9), self_check_in_pq(9), produce_free_peb(9), ubi_wl_get_peb(9)

like, that's the whole wear-leveling friend group fr fr 😭 go read them, they're all connected, iykyk 🧚

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ok quick vibe check: this page is tiny and that is not an accident — she's a single-purpose destroyer. don't go asking her for extra features, she's not that girl 🙈

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💜 the cute sign-off 💜

this iconic little page lives in the kernel tree at ./drivers/mtd/ubi, it's dated October 2026, and it's been holding down the section 9 life since forever. bestie, go free that memory and slay 🍓✨💖