vdo_make_flusher(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, this is the vdo_make_flusher(9) page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ — and it is literally here to make a flusher for a vdo. That’s the whole vibe 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int vdo_make_flusher (struct vdo *vdo );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• vdo — The vdo which owns the flusher. Like, the flusher belongs to this vdo, no cap 💅

🔥 RETURN 🔥

VDO_SUCCESS or an error. That’s it, bestie — success or the error era 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file: ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/flush.c

The whole friend group is here 👑:

• assert_on_flusher_thread(9)
• as_flusher(9)
• completion_as_vdo_flush(9)
• vdo_waiter_as_flush(9)
• vdo_free_flusher(9)
• vdo_get_flusher_thread_id(9)
• finish_notification(9)
• flush_packer_callback(9)
• increment_generation(9)
• notify_flush(9)
• flush_vdo(9)
• check_for_drain_complete(9)
• vdo_complete_flushes(9)
• vdo_dump_flusher(9)
• initialize_flush(9)
• vdo_launch_flush(9)
• release_flush(9)
• vdo_complete_flush_callback(9)
• select_bio_queue(9)
• vdo_complete_flush(9)
• vdo_drain_flusher(9)
• vdo_resume_flusher(9)

source/version line: ./drivers/md/dm-vdo — dated October 2026. Bye bestie, go make that flusher slay 💖