start_querying(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 start_querying(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the start_querying(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 🎀 this is the glow-up moment where a hash lock finally gets to start deduplicating, and honestly? it's giving main character energy 👑

🌸 NAME 🌸

start_querying — start deduplication for a hash lock 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void start_querying (struct hash_lock *lock , struct data_vio *data_vio );

like, that's the whole signature. no cap. 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • lock — the initialized hash lock 💅 (key word: initialized, she's ready, she's been prepped)
  • data_vio — the data_vio that has just obtained the new lock 👀 like it literally just walked in with the keys

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

okay so here's the vibe 🌈 start_querying starts deduplication for a hash lock that has finished initializing. it does that by making the data_vio that requested it the agent, entering the QUERYING state, and then using that agent to perform the UDS query on behalf of the lock ✨

so basically: lock finishes initializing → the data_vio that asked for it becomes the agent → boom, we're in QUERYING → agent goes and does the UDS query for the whole lock 🎀 she's delegating. she's organized. she's iconic.

ngl the flow is: initialize → promote a data_vio to agent → state = QUERYING → agent does the UDS query on the lock's behalf. that's the whole plot 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

buckle up bestie, this list is long — but every single one is here, fr fr 💜

and that's the page, bestie 🍓 mwah 💋 this one came from ./drivers/md/dm-vdo and it's dated October 2026 ⭐ go read all 50-something of those SEE ALSO entries, i believe in you 🙈💜

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