vdo_waiter_as_flush(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for vdo_waiter_as_flush(9) — the tiny little function that does Convert a vdo_flush's generic wait queue entry back to the vdo_flush. no cap, that's the whole vibe.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct vdo_flush * vdo_waiter_as_flush (struct vdo_waiter *waiter );

like, that's the signature, bestie — keep it exact, she's doing her little struct thing 💅

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• waiter — the wait queue entry to convert. that's the one you're handing over so you can get the vdo_flush back, iykyk.

🦋 RETURN 🦋

the wait queue entry as a vdo_flush. yep, that's the return value — no mystery, just the converted thing.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bestie, there's a whole little friend group here, all hangin' out in the kernel file ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/flush.c:

• assert_on_flusher_thread(9)
• as_flusher(9)
• completion_as_vdo_flush(9)
• vdo_make_flusher(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)

big sparkly sign-off: this page comes from the ./drivers/md/dm-vdo source, dated October 2026, and the manual is vdo_waiter_as_flush(9) — periodt 💖🫶