start_locking(9)

💖 NAME 💖

omg hiii bestie! welcome to the start_locking(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 💅✨ this is the one that does Continue deduplication for a hash lock that has obtained valid advice of a potential duplicate through its agent — literally the continuation moment, no cap 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature is exactly this, character for character, bestie:

void start_locking (struct hash_lock *lock , struct data_vio *agent );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• lock — the hash lock 💖 heads up: it currently must be QUERYING, that's the vibe check it has to pass.
• agent — the data_vio that's bearing the dedupe advice 🦋 main character carrying the advice fr fr.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

all the cross-refs, every single one, no skips periodt 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/dedupe.c Introduction(9), return_hash_lock_to_pool(9), vdo_get_duplicate_lock(9), hash_lock_key(9), get_hash_lock_state_name(9), assert_hash_lock_agent(9), set_duplicate_lock(9), dequeue_lock_waiter(9), set_hash_lock(9), exit_hash_lock(9), set_duplicate_location(9), retire_lock_agent(9), wait_on_hash_lock(9), abort_waiter(9), start_bypassing(9), finish_unlocking(9), unlock_duplicate_pbn(9), start_unlocking(9), finish_updating(9), start_updating(9), finish_deduping(9), acquire_lock(9), enter_forked_lock(9), fork_hash_lock(9), launch_dedupe(9), start_deduping(9), increment_stat(9), finish_verifying(9), start_verifying(9), finish_locking(9), lock_duplicate_pbn(9), finish_writing(9), select_writing_agent(9), start_writing(9), finish_querying(9), start_querying(9), report_bogus_lock_state(9), vdo_continue_hash_lock(9), is_hash_collision(9), vdo_acquire_hash_lock(9), vdo_release_hash_lock(9), transfer_allocation_lock(9), vdo_share_compressed_write_lock(9), report_dedupe_timeouts(9), finish_index_operation(9), check_for_drain_complete(9), vdo_make_hash_zones(9), vdo_free_hash_zones(9), suspend_index(9), resume_index(9), vdo_resume_hash_zones(9), get_hash_zone_statistics(9), vdo_get_dedupe_statistics(9), vdo_select_hash_zone(9), dump_hash_lock(9), dump_hash_zone(9), vdo_dump_hash_zones(9), acquire_context(9)

okay that's the whole page, bestie! mwah 💋 this cutie comes from ./drivers/md/dm-vdo, dated October 2026, and it's literally start_locking(9) — byeee 🫶🌺