fsnotify_modify_mark_mask(9)

💅 fsnotify_modify_mark_mask(9)

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — today's main character is fsnotify_modify_mark_mask(9), and honestly? she's giving tiny-but-powerful. 🎀

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🌸 NAME

fsnotify_modify_mark_mask — set and/or clear flags in a mark's mask 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS

void fsnotify_modify_mark_mask (struct fsnotify_mark *mark , u32 set ,
       u32 clear );

like, that's the whole signature. no cap, that's it. 💖

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🦋 ARGUMENTS

• mark — the mark to be modified 🌸 (yes, this is the one getting a glow-up)
• set — the bits to be set in the mask ⭐
• clear — the bits to be cleared in the mask 🧹

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👑 DESCRIPTION

So what she does is: modify a fsnotify_mark mask as directed, and update its associated conn. that's the vibe check right there 🔥

⚠️ important bestie: the caller is expected to hold a reference to the mark. like, you gotta bring the reference. it's not gonna manifest one for you 💀

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🔍 SEE ALSO

• Kernel file ./fs/notify/mark.c
• fsnotify_unmount_inodes(9)

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and that's the whole page, iykyk 🌈 mwah 💋

signed off with love from ./fs/notify — October 2026, Kernel API Manual edition 🎀✨🦋