get_znodes_to_commit(9)

💅 get_znodes_to_commit(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual bestie edition ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and we're talking about a little function that lives its best life in the UBIFS tree 🌳💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

get_znodes_to_commit — literally makes a list of the dirty znodes that need to commit, no cap 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int get_znodes_to_commit (struct ubifs_info *c );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object, aka the main character of this whole situation 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the way this works is: this function returns the number of znodes to commit. that's it, that's the whole vibe check ✨🔢

like, you hand it the file-system description object and it comes back at you with a count. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

bestie you are NOT ready for this friend group, it's giving whole-tnc_commit.c-reunion 😭💀 the kernel file is ./fs/ubifs/tnc_commit.c and here's everybody who shows up to the party:

• 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)
• alloc_idx_lebs(9)
• free_unused_idx_lebs(9)
• free_idx_lebs(9)
• ubifs_tnc_start_commit(9)
• write_index(9)
• free_obsolete_znodes(9)
• return_gap_lebs(9)
• ubifs_tnc_end_commit(9)

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mwah 💋 that's the whole page, go forth and commit your znodes (the dirty ones specifically) 🌈🧚

this came straight outta ./fs/ubifs, dated October 2026 — so like, future vibes only ⏳💜 slay 🫶