fscache_put_cache(9)

💅 fscache_put_cache

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's a lil function from the fscache corner of the kernel and honestly? she's short, she's sweet, she's a whole release-a-reference moment. let's get into it 🎀

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🦋 NAME

fscache_put_cache — release a cache-level cookie. that's it, that's the whole vibe. drop the cookie, be free 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS

void fscache_put_cache (struct fscache_cache *cache , enum
       fscache_cache_trace where );

like literally that's the whole signature, no cap 🫶

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✨ ARGUMENTS

• cache — the cache cookie that's getting released. she's served her purpose, let her go 🕊️
• where — an indication of where the release happened. basically a little "this is the context, bestie" tag 🏷️

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💖 DESCRIPTION

so here's the tea ☕ — you're releasing the caller's reference on a cache-level cookie. your reference. the one you're holding. gone. released. iconic behavior honestly 👑

and that where argument? it should give info about the circumstances in which the call occurs, and it will be logged through a tracepoint ✨ so future you (or whoever's squinting at traces at 2am 😭) knows exactly where this release came from. iykyk 🌈

ngl the tracepoint logging is doing a lot of heavy lifting here — that where is not decorative, it is the receipt 🧾

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🔥 SEE ALSO

• Kernel file ./fs/netfs/fscache_cache.c
• fscache_acquire_cache(9)
• fscache_relinquish_cache(9)
• fscache_add_cache(9)
• fscache_begin_cache_access(9)
• fscache_end_cache_access(9)
• fscache_io_error(9)
• fscache_withdraw_cache(9)

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and that's the whole page, bestie — no crumbs left, we ate 🍓

source: ./fs/netfs • date: October 2026 • manual: Kernel API Manual

mwah, go release those references responsibly 💜🧚‍♀️