netfs_i_cookie(9)

💖 netfs_i_cookie(9) 💖

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie — today’s main character is netfs_i_cookie(9), and it’s literally the tiny helper that grabs a cache cookie from an inode. One job, zero drama. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

netfs_i_cookie — get the cache cookie from the inode 🍪

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct fscache_cookie * netfs_i_cookie (struct netfs_inode *ctx );

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• ctx — the netfs inode you’re querying, bestie 🌸

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So like, this function gets the caching cookie — but only if enabled — from the network filesystem’s inode. That’s the vibe: you hand it the netfs inode, and it gets the cache cookie from it. Periodt. 🎀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./include/linux/netfs.h
• folio_start_private_2(9)
• netfs_inode(9)
• netfs_read_remote_i_size(9)
• netfs_read_zero_point(9)
• netfs_read_sizes(9)
• netfs_inode_init(9)
• netfs_resize_file(9)
• netfs_wait_for_outstanding_io(9)

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later bestie 💜 — this one lives under ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and the page is netfs_i_cookie(9) ✨