nfsd_file_cache_purge(9)

💖 nfsd_file_cache_purge(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — yes this is a kernel manpage and yes we're gonna make it cute, because kernel internals deserve main character energy too 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

nfsd_file_cache_purge — remove all cache items associated with @net

like, every single one. the whole cache. for that net namespace. gone 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void nfsd_file_cache_purge (struct net *net );

it returns void, meaning it gives you nothing back — it's not here to chat, it's here to clean 🧹 periodt.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• net — the target net namespace. that's the one whose cache items are getting swept away, so make sure it's the right one bestie, iykyk 👑

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./fs/nfsd/filecache.c — and literally the whole friend group:

• nfsd_file_check_write_error(9)
• nfsd_file_put(9)
• nfsd_file_put_local(9)
• nfsd_file_file(9)
• nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed(9)
• nfsd_file_net_dispose(9)
• nfsd_file_lru_cb(9)
• nfsd_file_cond_queue(9)
• nfsd_file_queue_for_close(9)
• nfsd_file_close_inode(9)
• nfsd_file_close_inode_sync(9)
• nfsd_file_close_export(9)
• __nfsd_file_cache_purge(9)
• nfsd_file_is_cached(9)
• nfsd_file_acquire_gc(9)
• nfsd_file_acquire(9)
• nfsd_file_acquire_local(9)
• nfsd_file_acquire_opened(9)
• nfsd_file_acquire_dir(9)
• nfsd_fsnotify_recalc_mask(9)

note the double-underscore one up there — __nfsd_file_cache_purge(9) — that's the sibling, not a typo, don't come for me 🙈

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅 and now the credits: this lil beauty lives under ./fs/nfsd, stamped October 2026, and it's nfsd_file_cache_purge(9) through and through. mwah 💖🎀✨