gfs2_dirty_inode(9)

gfs2_dirty_inode(9) — bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual 💖

okay so this page is all about gfs2_dirty_inode, and honestly it's giving “small function, very specific job” energy 💅

✨ NAME ✨

gfs2_dirty_inode — check for atime updates 🕰️

🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

void gfs2_dirty_inode (struct inode *inode , int flags );

no cap, that's the signature — copy it exactly if you're typing it, okay? 💖

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• inode — the inode in question 👀 like, literally the inode we're looking at.
• flags — the type of dirty 🌈 yes, that's the actual description, and we're moving with it.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea: unfortunately it can be called under any combination of inode glock and freeze glock, so we have to check carefully 😭 lock vibes are complicated, bestie — no assumptions allowed.

at the moment this deals only with atime — it should be possible to expand that role in future, once a review of the locking has been carried out 🔥 so right now it's atime-only, future maybe more, but only after that locking review. periodt.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file: ./fs/gfs2/super.c
• gfs2_jindex_free(9)
• gfs2_make_fs_rw(9)
• gfs2_lock_fs_check_clean(9)
• gfs2_write_inode(9)
• gfs2_make_fs_ro(9)
• gfs2_put_super(9)
• gfs2_sync_fs(9)
• gfs2_freeze_super(9)
• gfs2_thaw_super(9)
• statfs_slow_fill(9)
• gfs2_statfs_slow(9)
• gfs2_statfs_i(9)
• gfs2_statfs(9)
• gfs2_drop_inode(9)
• gfs2_show_options(9)
• gfs2_glock_put_eventually(9)
• evict_should_delete(9)
• evict_unlinked_inode(9)
• gfs2_evict_inode(9)

that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 big kiss to the source spot ./fs/gfs2 and the October 2026 date on this one — go be iconic with your inode checks 💖✨