mte_dead_walk(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

omg hi bestie 👋 welcome to mte_dead_walk(9) from the Kernel API Manual — this is the little walker that goes down a dead tree and stops just before the leaves, and yes it's giving very specific lore 💅🌳💀

🎀 NAME 🎀

mte_dead_walk — walk down a dead tree to just before the leaves. That's it, that's the function, and it ate. 🌳💀✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void __rcu ** mte_dead_walk (struct maple_enode **enode , unsigned char offset );

🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

  • enode — the maple encoded node 🍁
  • offset — the starting offset 🎯

⚠️ NOTE ⚠️

This can only be used from the RCU callback context. Like, ONLY there, bestie. RCU callback context or bust — do not test me on this, fr fr. 🙈💀

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

If you're doing a deep dive (iykyk), here's the whole friend group from the kernel file ./lib/maple_tree.c and all the (9) besties:

okay that's the whole page, bestie 🫶💖 — source ./lib, dated October 2026, page mte_dead_walk(9). byeee ✨👑

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