start_scrubbing(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ start_scrubbing(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to start_scrubbing(9) from the Kernel API Manual — section 9 of the manual pages, the section where all the kernel-internals lore lives 💅 this one's a little callback with a big job and honestly? she's iconic for it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

start_scrubbing — Read the current slab's journal from disk now that it has been flushed.

like literally the name says it all: the slab's journal got flushed, and now we go read it off the disk. no cap 😭✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void start_scrubbing (struct vdo_completion *completion );

that's the whole thing. one function, one pointer, zero returns. it's giving "simple but essential" energy 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • completion — The scrubber's vio completion. yep, this is the scrubber's vio completion, and it gets passed straight on through 💜

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

So here's the tea: this callback is registered in scrub_next_slab 🔥

that's it, that's the whole description — she's a callback, she's registered in scrub_next_slab, and she shows up when she's needed. main character energy, honestly 👑

bestie pls note: that's genuinely all the manpage gives us here — I'm not gonna invent extra lore about what she does inside, because that would be lying and we don't do that in this group chat 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this is the part where the page absolutely ate — there is a Kernel file reference and then a truly enormous list of friends, and we are naming every single one because nobody gets left on read 💖

Kernel file: ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/slab-depot.c

and now, the whole crew, in order, no skips, no cuts ✨

like. that's a whole contact list bestie, and every single one of them is linked 💅🔗

that's the whole page!! 🧚‍♀️ go read some slab-depot source and hydrate, ily 🍓

signed, sealed, delivered from ./drivers/md/dm-vdo — October 2026 — start_scrubbing(9) 💖

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