queue_limits_start_update(9)

👑 queue_limits_start_update(9) 👑

okay so bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual entry for queue_limits_start_update, and it’s literally the “start the update” bestie of queue limits. 💅✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

queue_limits_start_update — start an atomic update of queue limits 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct queue_limits queue_limits_start_update (struct request_queue *q
);

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• q — the queue to update, bestie 🫶

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so this function starts an atomic update of the queue limits. 🔥 It takes a lock to prevent other updates, then returns a snapshot of the current limits that the caller can modify. It’s giving “hold my spot while I edit” energy, fr fr.

The caller must call queue_limits_commit_update to finish the update. no cap, don’t leave it hanging like an unread group chat 😭

bestie, the commit call is not optional — that’s the whole finish-the-update moment 💖

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🦋 CONTEXT 🦋

process context. that’s it, that’s the vibe 🌸

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./include/linux/blkdev.h
• genhd capability flags(9)
• disk_openers(9)
• disk_has_partscan(9)
• bio_needs_zone_write_plugging(9)
• disk_zone_capacity(9)
• blk_alloc_disk(9)
• queue_limits_cancel_update(9)
• bio_end_io_acct(9)

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mwah 💋 this cutie came from source/version ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and the page is queue_limits_start_update(9) — bye bestie, slay your queue limits 🫶👑