eventfs_d_release(9)

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie — today’s main character is eventfs_d_release(9), and she is literally just here to clean up a dentry situation 💅

✨ NAME ✨

eventfs_d_release — dentry is going away. like, it’s leaving the group chat, no cap 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void eventfs_d_release (struct dentry *dentry );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dentry — the dentry which has the reference to remove. that’s the one, bestie 💖

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Remove the association between a dentry from an eventfs_inode. yes, that’s the whole vibe: the dentry is going away, and this is the little association-removal moment ✨

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
• lookup_file(9)
• lookup_dir_entry(9)
• lookup_file_dentry(9)
• eventfs_root_lookup(9)
• eventfs_create_dir(9)
• eventfs_create_events_dir(9)
• eventfs_remove_rec(9)
• eventfs_remove_dir(9)
• eventfs_remove_events_dir(9)

and that’s the eventfs_d_release(9) tea 🍵 — source/version: ./fs/tracefs; date: October 2026 ✨ mwah 💋