netfs_end_io_direct(9)

💅 netfs_end_io_direct(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the netfs_end_io_direct page, straight out of the Kernel API Manual ✨ no cap, this one's short but she matters.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

netfs_end_io_direct — the girl who announces that the direct i/o operation is, like, officially done. periodt. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void netfs_end_io_direct (struct inode *inode );

literally the whole signature, copy it exactly, don't @ me 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• inode — file inode. that's it. that's the whole vibe. the inode in question 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so picture this: you're declaring that a direct I/O operation is done — finished, wrapped, credits rolling 🎬 — and as part of that you release the shared lock on inode->i_rwsem. the way that it just… lets go?? iconic. 🔥

so yeah: announce the direct I/O is over, drop the shared lock on inode->i_rwsem, and let everybody else in. no drama, no leftovers. 😌

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./fs/netfs/locking.c
• netfs_start_io_read(9)
• netfs_end_io_read(9)
• netfs_start_io_write(9)
• netfs_end_io_write(9)
• netfs_start_io_direct(9)
• netfs_wb_begin(9)

go read the whole friend group, they're all linked, iykyk 💜

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🎀 and that's the page!! sign-off time: this little beauty lives in ./fs/netfs, dated October 2026, and yes she's giving main character energy in the Kernel API Manual ⭐ mwah 💋🧚‍♀️