sg_miter_stop(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💫 sg_miter_stop(9) — the kernel API manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is sg_miter_stop from the kernel API manual (section 9, yes the dev one) and honestly? she's a little function with big main-character energy. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

sg_miter_stop — stop mapping iteration. that's it. that's the whole vibe. she stops the iteration. periodt 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void sg_miter_stop (struct sg_mapping_iter *miter );

yes bestie, it returns void — nothing comes back out, she just does the thing and leaves ✨

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • miter — the sg mapping iter that's getting stopped. that's the one. the target. the moment 🎯

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕ — sg_miter_stop stops the mapping iterator miter.

important detail before you go wild: miter should have been started using sg_miter_start. like, you can't stop something that was never started, that's not how any of this works 😭

and here's the cute part — a stopped iteration can be resumed by calling sg_miter_next on it. slay! 💖 this is genuinely useful when resources (kmap) need to be released during iteration. so you stop, you free your stuff, you come back, you keep iterating. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

🌈 CONTEXT 🌈

"Don't care otherwise." — literally the most relaxed line in the whole kernel, she said no thoughts, head empty 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

kernel file ./lib/scatterlist.c plus the whole scatterlist friend group, all of them, no one left out (we don't do exclusion here 🫶):

reminder bestie: miter has to be one that was started with sg_miter_start — and if you stopped it and wanna keep going, sg_miter_next is your girl 💅

⭐ that's the whole page!! brought to you by ./lib, dated October 2026, and filed under sg_miter_stop(9) — mwah, go stop some iterators responsibly 💜🧚

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