dbg_old_index_check_init(9)

💅 dbg_old_index_check_init — the Kernel API Manual era 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the <pink>Kernel API Manual</pink> page for dbg_old_index_check_init ✨ yes the whole thing lives under that manual name, and yes we're gonna get into it 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

dbg_old_index_check_init — get information for the next old index check. literally that's the whole job, and she does it 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int dbg_old_index_check_init (struct ubifs_info *c , struct
ubifs_zbranch *zroot );

that's the signature, copy it exactly, no cap 👑

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object 🗂️ like, the whole vibe of the filesystem in one struct
• zroot — root of the index 🌳 yeah, the root root

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so what she does is: this function records information about the index that will be needed for the next old index check 🌈 and by "old index check" we mean dbg_check_old_index, iykyk 💅 she's basically taking notes so the next check has everything it needs, main character energy fr fr

this function returns 0 on success and a negative error code on failure 😭 so like, zero means slay, negative means something went off, keep that in mind bestie ⭐

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/commit.c do_commit(9)
• run_bg_commit(9)
• ubifs_bg_thread(9)
• ubifs_commit_required(9)
• ubifs_request_bg_commit(9)
• wait_for_commit(9)
• ubifs_run_commit(9)
• ubifs_gc_should_commit(9)
• struct idx_node(9)
• dbg_check_old_index(9)

all of these are the friend group, go read them too 🔥

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lowkey important: dbg_old_index_check_init only records info for the next check — it doesn't run the check itself, that's dbg_check_old_index's moment 👀

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k bye bestie, go forth and debug your old index 💜

~ sign-off ~ 🎀 this page is from ./fs/ubifs, dated October 2026, and it's filed under dbg_old_index_check_init(9) — periodt 💅