css_clear_dir(9)

💅 css_clear_dir(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie ✨

okay so picture this: it's a whole manual page, it's called css_clear_dir(9), and it lives in the Kernel API Manual. that's the vibe. now let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

css_clear_dir — remove subsys files in a cgroup directory 🧹✨

like, it literally clears the dir. the subsys files? gone. iconic behavior, no cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void css_clear_dir (struct cgroup_subsys_state *css );

that's the whole signature, character for character, don't touch it 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• css — the target css 💖 that's it, that's the whole argument list. she takes one (1) thing and one thing only.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

main character file first: Kernel file ./kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c 👑

and then the entire friend group, because this page is nothing if not social:

• cgroup_ssid_enabled(9), cgroup_on_dfl(9), cgroup_e_css_by_mask(9), cgroup_e_css(9), cgroup_get_e_css(9), __cgroup_task_count(9)
• cgroup_task_count(9), for_each_css(9), do_each_subsys_mask(9), css_set_populated(9), css_update_populated(9), css_set_update_populated(9)
• css_set_move_task(9), compare_css_sets(9), find_existing_css_set(9), allocate_cgrp_cset_links(9), link_css_set(9), find_css_set(9)
• cgroup_file_mode(9), cgroup_calc_subtree_ss_mask(9), cgroup_kn_unlock(9), cgroup_kn_lock_live(9), css_populate_dir(9) 🌟 (this one is literally her counterpart, the populate to her clear, iykyk)
• cgroup_attach_lock(9), cgroup_attach_unlock(9), cgroup_migrate_add_task(9), cgroup_taskset_first(9), cgroup_taskset_next(9)
• cgroup_migrate_execute(9), cgroup_migrate_vet_dst(9), cgroup_migrate_finish(9), cgroup_migrate_add_src(9), cgroup_migrate_prepare_dst(9)
• cgroup_migrate(9), cgroup_attach_task(9), cgroup_update_dfl_csses(9), cgroup_lock_and_drain_offline(9)
• cgroup_save_control(9), cgroup_propagate_control(9), cgroup_restore_control(9)
• cgroup_apply_control_enable(9), cgroup_apply_control_disable(9), cgroup_apply_control(9), cgroup_finalize_control(9), cgroup_enable_threaded(9)
• cgroup_tryget_css(9), cgroup_addrm_files(9), cgroup_rm_cftypes(9), cgroup_add_cftypes(9), cgroup_add_dfl_cftypes(9), cgroup_add_legacy_cftypes(9)
• cgroup_file_notify(9), cgroup_file_show(9), css_next_child(9), css_next_descendant_pre(9), css_rightmost_descendant(9), css_next_descendant_post(9)
• css_has_online_children(9), css_task_iter_advance_css_set(9), css_task_iter_start(9), css_task_iter_next(9), css_task_iter_end(9)
• css_create(9), kill_css_sync(9), kill_css_finish(9), cgroup_destroy_locked(9)
• cgroup_init_early(9), cgroup_init(9), cgroup_fork(9), cgroup_v1v2_get_from_file(9), cgroup_get_from_file(9)
• cgroup_css_set_fork(9), cgroup_css_set_put_fork(9), cgroup_can_fork(9), cgroup_cancel_fork(9), cgroup_post_fork(9), cgroup_task_exit(9)
• css_tryget_online_from_dir(9), css_from_id(9), cgroup_get_from_path(9), cgroup_v1v2_get_from_fd(9), cgroup_get_from_fd(9), cgroup_parse_float(9)

like congrats to the whole cgroup friend group honestly, everyone showed up 🔥

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ok that's the whole page, every last name, nothing skipped, periodt 💅

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and that's a wrap on css_clear_dir(9) bestie!! this cutie came to you from ./kernel/cgroup and it's dated October 2026 — screenshot it, cite it, obsess over it 💖🎀