mnt_set_expiry(9)

💅 mnt_set_expiry(9) — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the mnt_set_expiry(9) page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one is short and sweet, and honestly it’s giving “tiny function, big mount-list energy” 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

mnt_set_expiry — Put a mount on an expiration list 💖 periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here’s the signature, verbatim, no cap:

void mnt_set_expiry (struct vfsmount *mnt , struct list_head
       *expiry_list );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• mnt — The mount to list. like, the mount you’re putting on the list, bestie 💅
• expiry_list — The list to add the mount to. that’s the list receiving the mount, iykyk ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./fs/namespace.c — yes, the kernel file path, keep it exact 🫶

• mnt_get_write_access(9)
• mnt_want_write(9)
• mnt_get_write_access_file(9)
• mnt_want_write_file(9)
• mnt_put_write_access(9)
• mnt_drop_write(9)
• mnt_hold_writers(9)
• mnt_unhold_writers(9)
• __lookup_mnt(9)
• lookup_mnt(9)
• attach_mnt(9)
• vfs_create_mount(9)
• path_is_mountpoint(9)
• may_umount_tree(9)
• may_umount(9)
• clone_private_mount(9)
• attach_recursive_mnt(9)
• do_lock_mount(9)
• path_overmounted(9)
• can_move_mount_beneath(9)
• mnt_allow_writers(9)

💀 reminder bestie: that SEE ALSO list is long, but every single one is here, so no skimming erasure, okay? 😭

and that’s the whole page, bestie 🎀 source is ./fs, the date stamp says October 2026, and the page is mnt_set_expiry(9) — slay, periodt. 💖✨