dbg_is_node_dirty(9)

💅 dbg_is_node_dirty(9) — the Kernel API Manual edition 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for dbg_is_node_dirty, straight out of the Kernel API Manual ✨ it's a whole debug-vibe function and honestly it does exactly one thing, but it does it iconically.

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🦋 NAME 🦋

dbg_is_node_dirty — determine if a node is dirty.

like, it checks the vibe of a node and tells you if that node is dirty. that's it. that's the function. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int dbg_is_node_dirty (struct ubifs_info *c , int node_type , int lnum ,
int offs );

copy it exactly bestie, no cap, don't retype it from memory 😭

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object 🫶 literally the whole filesystem's little ID card.
• node_type — node type 👑 tells us what kind of node we're dealing with.
• lnum — LEB number where node was written 📍 the address, basically.
• offs — offset where node was written 🎯 and here's exactly where inside it.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

grab a snack, bestie, because this list is long — it's giving "linked list but make it a manpage" 💀 all of these live in the kernel file ./fs/ubifs/lpt_commit.c:

• first_dirty_cnode(9), next_dirty_cnode(9), get_cnodes_to_commit(9), upd_ltab(9)
• alloc_lpt_leb(9), layout_cnodes(9), realloc_lpt_leb(9), write_cnodes(9)
• next_pnode_to_dirty(9), add_pnode_dirt(9), do_make_pnode_dirty(9), make_tree_dirty(9)
• need_write_all(9), lpt_tgc_start(9), lpt_tgc_end(9), populate_lsave(9)
• nnode_lookup(9), make_nnode_dirty(9), make_pnode_dirty(9), make_ltab_dirty(9)
• make_lsave_dirty(9), make_node_dirty(9), get_lpt_node_len(9), get_pad_len(9)
• get_lpt_node_type(9), is_a_node(9), lpt_gc_lnum(9), lpt_gc(9)
• ubifs_lpt_start_commit(9), free_obsolete_cnodes(9), ubifs_lpt_end_commit(9), ubifs_lpt_post_commit(9)
• first_nnode(9), next_nnode(9), ubifs_lpt_free(9), dbg_is_all_ff(9)
• dbg_is_nnode_dirty(9), dbg_is_pnode_dirty(9), dbg_is_ltab_dirty(9), dbg_is_lsave_dirty(9)
• dbg_check_ltab_lnum(9), dbg_check_ltab(9), dbg_chk_lpt_free_spc(9), dbg_chk_lpt_sz(9)
• dump_lpt_leb(9), ubifs_dump_lpt_lebs(9), dbg_populate_lsave(9)

every single one, accounted for, iykyk 💖

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ngl if you got here looking for lore: this page lives under ./fs/ubifs, the date on it is October 2026, and its whole name-and-number situation is dbg_is_node_dirty(9). slay 🎀✨🦋