vdo_free_physical_zones(9)

🦋 vdo_free_physical_zones(9) — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so this is the vdo_free_physical_zones(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and it is literally here to destroy the physical zones. that's the vibe. no cap. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

vdo_free_physical_zones — Destroy the physical zones. periodt. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void vdo_free_physical_zones (struct physical_zones *zones );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• zones — The zones to free. that's the one and only thing you're passing in, bestie. 🎁

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/physical-zone.c is the source-y main character here, and these are the linked-up besties:

• vdo_is_pbn_read_lock(9)
• vdo_downgrade_pbn_write_lock(9)
• vdo_claim_pbn_lock_increment(9)
• vdo_assign_pbn_lock_provisional_reference(9)
• vdo_unassign_pbn_lock_provisional_reference(9)
• release_pbn_lock_provisional_reference(9)
• union idle_pbn_lock(9)
• struct pbn_lock_pool(9)
• return_pbn_lock_to_pool(9)
• make_pbn_lock_pool(9)
• free_pbn_lock_pool(9)
• borrow_pbn_lock_from_pool(9)
• initialize_zone(9)
• vdo_make_physical_zones(9)
• vdo_get_physical_zone_pbn_lock(9)
• vdo_attempt_physical_zone_pbn_lock(9)
• allocate_and_lock_block(9)
• retry_allocation(9)
• continue_allocating(9)
• vdo_allocate_block_in_zone(9)
• vdo_release_physical_zone_pbn_lock(9)
• vdo_dump_physical_zone(9)

mwah 💋 — this cutie's source/version lives in ./drivers/md/dm-vdo, it's dated October 2026, and it's vdo_free_physical_zones(9) signing off. 🫶✨