d_real(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for d_real, and the name is literally doing the most in the best way: it returns the real dentry 💖

d_real — Return the real dentry ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct dentry * d_real (struct dentry *dentry , enum d_real_type type );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dentry — the dentry to query 👀
• type — the type of real dentry (data or metadata) 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe check: if dentry is on a union/overlay, then return the underlying, real dentry. Otherwise return the dentry itself. no cap, that's the whole glow-up 🫶 periodt.

See also: Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst 📚

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./include/linux/dcache.h is where the whole squad lives:

• dget_dlock(9)
• dget(9)
• d_unhashed(9)
• d_really_is_negative(9)
• d_really_is_positive(9)
• d_inode(9)
• d_inode_rcu(9)
• d_backing_inode(9)
• d_real_inode(9)

mwah 💋 this page is from ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and it's d_real(9) — iconic, fr fr 🌈👑