vdo_reset_priority_table(9)

πŸ“¦ version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ vdo_reset_priority_table(9) ✨

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and it's genuinely one of the most chill little functions you'll ever meet πŸ’…


🌸 NAME 🌸

vdo_reset_priority_table β€” resets a priority table, leaving it in the exact same empty state as when it was freshly constructed 🫢

like… factory reset but make it minimal effort. no cap ✨


πŸ¦‹ SYNOPSIS πŸ¦‹

void vdo_reset_priority_table (struct priority_table *table );

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. 🌈


πŸŽ€ ARGUMENTS πŸŽ€

  • table β€” the table to reset. yes queen, this is the one you're wiping 🧚

πŸ’– DESCRIPTION πŸ’–

So here's the tea, and it's important tea β˜•: this table does not own the entries stored inside it. Not even a little bit.

Because of that, those entries are not freed by this call β€” and they're not even unlinked from each other either. Like, the reset does not go in and detangle your linked list for you. It literally just leaves everything alone 😭

so yeah: reset the table, but the entries are still Very Much Your Problem, bestie. the function is not your mom. πŸ’€

πŸ”₯ SEE ALSO πŸ”₯

the whole girl group πŸ’œ go read them, iykyk πŸ‘‘


and that's the page!! shipped with love from ./drivers/md/dm-vdo, stamped October 2026 β€” mwah πŸ’‹βœ¨ not me being obsessed with a kernel function, but here we are πŸ“

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