schedule_releases(9)

💅 schedule_releases(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie

okay so real talk, we're doing a manpage moment and it's giving kernel internals. this one lives in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and the whole entire vibe is just: make sure the release processing actually gets scheduled. that's it. that's the function. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

schedule_releases — bestie's whole job is making sure release processing is scheduled. no cap, that's the entire assignment. 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void schedule_releases (struct data_vio_pool *pool );

one function, one argument, returns nothing (void), periodt. 🔥

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• pool — the data_vio pool. literally just the pool. she's a struct data_vio_pool * and she's carrying the whole operation on her shoulders 💅

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

okay so here's the tea 🍵 — if this call is the one that flips the state over to processing, then it enqueues. like, she's the main character who does the thing.

otherwise? some other thread already got there first and did it. not her problem, not her moment, she does not enqueue. 💀

fr fr the whole logic is: "am I the one who switched the state to processing?" yes → enqueue. no → another thread already handled it, so chill. 🌈

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

this is the part where the manpage just dumps her entire friend group on you and honestly we respect it. so many besties. 🫶

Kernel file ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/data-vio.c Bio flags.(9), Introduction(9), check_for_drain_complete_locked(9), pack_status(9), set_data_vio_compression_status(9), cancel_data_vio_compression(9), attempt_logical_block_lock(9), launch_data_vio(9), process_release_callback(9), initialize_data_vio(9), make_data_vio_pool(9), free_data_vio_pool(9), vdo_launch_bio(9), drain_data_vio_pool(9), resume_data_vio_pool(9), dump_data_vio_pool(9), release_allocated_lock(9), release_logical_lock(9), finish_cleanup(9), get_data_vio_operation_name(9), data_vio_allocate_data_block(9), release_data_vio_allocation_lock(9), uncompress_data_vio(9), modify_for_partial_write(9), read_block(9), update_block_map(9), read_old_block_mapping(9), pack_compressed_data(9), compress_data_vio(9), launch_compress_data_vio(9), hash_data_vio(9), write_bio_finished(9), acknowledge_write_callback(9), allocate_block(9), handle_allocation_error(9), continue_data_vio_with_block_map_slot(9)

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that, i'm so proud of you 🧚‍♀️💜 this one came to you from ./drivers/md/dm-vdo, dated October 2026, and it's signed off at schedule_releases(9) — mwah, go schedule some releases bestie, slay ✨🍓