vdo_resume_packer(9)

✨ vdo_resume_packer(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for vdo_resume_packer 💅 this is a section-9 manpage, iykyk, and it's short and sweet — no cap, it's literally just "un-pause the packer". let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vdo_resume_packer — resume a packer which has been suspended.

like, if your packer was taking a lil nap 😴, this is the thing that wakes it back up. main character energy fr.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void vdo_resume_packer (struct packer *packer , struct vdo_completion
*parent );

it's giving void — so nothing comes back to you, bestie, don't go looking for a return value 💀

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• packer — the packer to resume. yes, that's the one you're waking up. the icon of the hour 👑
• parent — the completion to finish when the packer has resumed. so like, this is how you get told "okay she's up and running" ✨ don't forget about her!!

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

first up, the source itself, right here in the kernel files:

• Kernel file ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/packer.c 🍓

and then, okay, buckle up bestie, because there is a whole squad of related functions and honestly they ate:

• vdo_get_compressed_block_fragment(9)
• assert_on_packer_thread(9)
• insert_in_sorted_list(9)
• make_bin(9)
• vdo_make_packer(9)
• vdo_free_packer(9)
• get_packer_from_data_vio(9)
• vdo_get_packer_statistics(9)
• abort_packing(9)
• release_compressed_write_waiter(9)
• finish_compressed_write(9)
• add_to_bin(9)
• remove_from_bin(9)
• initialize_compressed_block(9)
• pack_fragment(9)
• compressed_write_end_io(9)
• write_bin(9)
• add_data_vio_to_packer_bin(9)
• select_bin(9)
• vdo_attempt_packing(9)
• check_for_drain_complete(9)
• write_all_non_empty_bins(9)
• vdo_flush_packer(9)
• vdo_remove_lock_holder_from_packer(9)
• vdo_increment_packer_flush_generation(9)
• vdo_drain_packer(9)
• vdo_dump_packer(9)

that's the whole group chat, mwah 💋 go read them if you're obsessed (you should be).

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lowkey a reminder that this page lives in ./drivers/md/dm-vdo, dated October 2026 — that's the source/version + date situation for ya 🧚

k byeee, go resume that packer, you've got this 💜🌈⭐