free_obsolete_znodes(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the free_obsolete_znodes(9) page from the Kernel API Manual. This function does exactly what it says on the tin: it frees obsolete znodes. no cap, that's the whole main character energy here. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void free_obsolete_znodes (struct ubifs_info *c );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object. that's the entire argument list, bestie: one pointer and we're done 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

At the end of commit end, obsolete znodes are freed. literally that's the vibe: this is the cleanup moment where the obsolete znodes get yeeted. ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/tnc_commit.c — and the whole supporting cast, fr fr:

• make_idx_node(9)
• fill_gap(9)
• find_old_idx(9)
• is_idx_node_in_use(9)
• layout_leb_in_gaps(9)
• get_leb_cnt(9)
• layout_in_gaps(9)
• layout_in_empty_space(9)
• layout_commit(9)
• find_first_dirty(9)
• find_next_dirty(9)
• get_znodes_to_commit(9)
• alloc_idx_lebs(9)
• free_unused_idx_lebs(9)
• free_idx_lebs(9)
• ubifs_tnc_start_commit(9)
• write_index(9)
• return_gap_lebs(9)
• ubifs_tnc_end_commit(9)

and that's a wrap on free_obsolete_znodes(9) from ./fs/ubifs, dated October 2026 — mwah, slay, bye bestie 💋👑