__remove_inode_hash(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

• __remove_inode_hash — remove an inode from the hash.

okay so bestie, welcome to the __remove_inode_hash(9) page from the Kernel API Manual. This is the lil’ kernel API moment where you take an inode and un-hash it. 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void __remove_inode_hash (struct inode *inode );

that’s the whole signature, bestie — keep it exactly like that. 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• inode — inode to unhash. literally the inode you’re about to unhash, iykyk.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Remove an inode from the superblock.

that’s it, that’s the description 💅 no cap — this function is literally here to remove an inode from the superblock, and it’s giving iconic minimalism. 🫶

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Kernel file: ./fs/inode.c — and the whole squad is:

• inode_init_always_gfp(9)
• alloc_inode(9)
• drop_nlink(9)
• clear_nlink(9)
• set_nlink(9)
• inc_nlink(9)
• inode_sb_list_add(9)
• __insert_inode_hash(9)
• evict_inodes(9)
• new_inode(9)
• unlock_new_inode(9)
• lock_two_nondirectories(9)
• unlock_two_nondirectories(9)
• inode_insert5(9)
• iget5_locked(9)
• iget5_locked_rcu(9)
• iget_locked(9)
• iunique(9)
• ihold(9)
• ilookup5_nowait(9)
• ilookup5(9)
• ilookup(9)
• find_inode_nowait(9)
• find_inode_rcu(9)
• find_inode_by_ino_rcu(9)
• iput(9)
• iput_not_last(9)
• bmap(9)
• inode_update_time(9)
• generic_update_time(9)
• atime_needs_update(9)
• file_remove_privs(9)
• current_time(9)
• file_update_time(9)
• file_modified_flags(9)
• file_modified(9)
• kiocb_modified(9)
• inode_init_owner(9)
• inode_owner_or_capable(9)
• inode_dio_wait(9)
• timestamp_truncate(9)
• inode_set_ctime_current(9)
• inode_set_ctime_deleg(9)
• in_group_or_capable(9)
• mode_strip_sgid(9)
• dump_inode(9)

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mwah 💋 this one’s from source/version ./fs, dated October 2026, and it’s literally the __remove_inode_hash(9) page — bye bestie, go unhash responsibly 🫶✨