gfs2_release(9)

🌸 gfs2_release — NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the gfs2_release(9) page from the Kernel API Manual ✨

gfs2_release — called to close a struct file 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int gfs2_release (struct inode *inode , struct file *file );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• inode — the inode the struct file belongs to 👑
• file — the struct file being closed 💅

💖 RETURN 💖

errno — yep, that's the return value, no cap 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./fs/gfs2/file.c — plus the whole friend group:

• gfs2_llseek(9)
• gfs2_readdir(9)
• do_gfs2_set_flags(9)
• gfs2_size_hint(9)
• gfs2_allocate_folio_backing(9)
• gfs2_page_mkwrite(9)
• gfs2_mmap(9)
• gfs2_open_common(9)
• gfs2_open(9)
• gfs2_fsync(9)
• gfs2_file_write_iter(9)
• calc_max_reserv(9)
• gfs2_lock(9)
• gfs2_flock(9)

This iconic little page comes from ./fs/gfs2, dated October 2026. Bye bestie, go close that struct file respectfully 💅✨