inode_go_instantiate(9)

💖 NAME 💖

Okay so we're in the Kernel API Manual, bestie, and this page is all about inode_go_instantiate — read in an inode if necessary. That's the name, that's the whole thing, no cap. 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

Here's the signature exactly as it is, zero edits, periodt:

int inode_go_instantiate (struct gfs2_glock *gl );

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• gl — the glock. That's it, that's the argument. gl is literally just the glock, bestie. 💅

🌸 RETURN 🌸

It returns errno. That's the return sitch — errno, iconic, no notes. ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Okay so the original gives us the kernel file and then a whole squad of cross-references, all here, all exact, iykyk:

• Kernel file ./fs/gfs2/glops.c
• __gfs2_ail_flush(9)
• gfs2_rgrp_metasync(9)
• rgrp_go_sync(9)
• rgrp_go_inval(9)
• gfs2_inode_metasync(9)
• inode_go_sync(9)
• inode_go_inval(9)
• gfs2_inode_refresh(9)
• inode_go_dump(9)
• freeze_go_callback(9)
• freeze_go_xmote_bh(9)
• iopen_go_callback(9)

mwah 💖 — this page is sourced from ./fs/gfs2, dated October 2026, and it's literally the inode_go_instantiate(9) page. slay. 🌈