vdo_get_backing_device(9)

okay so this is vdo_get_backing_device(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and bestie, it's a tiny page with big main-character function-name energy 💅 let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

vdo_get_backing_device — get the block device object that's lowkey underlying a vdo 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct block_device * vdo_get_backing_device (const struct vdo *vdo );

that's the whole call, fr fr 🎀

🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

• vdo — the vdo. that's it. that's the argument. iconic 💖

🔥 RETURN 🔥

The vdo's current block device. no cap 🌟

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the full squad of related pages and the source file, all present and accounted for 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/vdo.c
• Introduction(9)
• vdo_initialize_device_registry_once(9)
• filter_vdos_locked(9)
• vdo_find_matching(9)
• initialize_thread_config(9)
• get_thread_name(9)
• vdo_make_thread(9)
• register_vdo(9)
• vdo_format(9)
• initialize_vdo(9)
• vdo_make(9)
• free_listeners(9)
• unregister_vdo(9)
• vdo_destroy(9)
• finish_reading_super_block(9)
• handle_super_block_read_error(9)
• vdo_load_super_block(9)
• vdo_get_device_name(9)
• vdo_synchronous_flush(9)
• vdo_get_state(9)
• vdo_set_state(9)
• vdo_get_admin_state(9)
• record_vdo(9)
• continue_parent(9)
• handle_geometry_block_save_error(9)
• vdo_save_geometry_block(9)
• handle_super_block_save_error(9)
• vdo_save_super_block(9)
• vdo_save_components(9)
• vdo_register_read_only_listener(9)
• notify_vdo_of_read_only_mode(9)
• vdo_enable_read_only_entry(9)
• vdo_wait_until_not_entering_read_only_mode(9)
• as_notifier(9)
• finish_entering_read_only_mode(9)
• make_thread_read_only(9)
• vdo_allow_read_only_mode_entry(9)
• vdo_enter_read_only_mode(9)
• vdo_is_read_only(9)
• vdo_in_read_only_mode(9)
• vdo_in_recovery_mode(9)
• vdo_enter_recovery_mode(9)
• complete_synchronous_action(9)
• perform_synchronous_action(9)
• set_compression_callback(9)
• vdo_set_compressing(9)
• vdo_get_compressing(9)
• vdo_get_physical_blocks_allocated(9)
• vdo_get_physical_blocks_overhead(9)
• get_vdo_statistics(9)
• vdo_fetch_statistics_callback(9)
• vdo_fetch_statistics(9)
• vdo_get_callback_thread_id(9)
• vdo_dump_status(9)
• vdo_assert_on_admin_thread(9)
• vdo_assert_on_logical_zone_thread(9)
• vdo_assert_on_physical_zone_thread(9)
• vdo_get_physical_zone(9)

xoxo bestie 🫶 this page came from source/version ./drivers/md/dm-vdo, dated October 2026, and it's literally vdo_get_backing_device(9). bye babes 💋