nilfs_clear_folio_dirty(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so this is the nilfs_clear_folio_dirty(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally about one job: discard dirty folio 💅

nilfs_clear_folio_dirty — discard dirty folio ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void nilfs_clear_folio_dirty (struct folio *folio );

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🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• folio — the dirty folio that's gonna get discarded 🫶

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so nilfs_clear_folio_dirty clears working states — including the dirty state — for the folio and its buffers. no cap, that's the whole glow-up 🧖✨

but bestie, if the folio has buffers, it only clears when it's confirmed that none of the buffer heads are busy — meaning none have valid references and none are locked 🔒💀 it's giving "check the vibes before you touch anything" fr fr.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./fs/nilfs2/page.c is the main-character source, and these are the co-stars 👑:

• nilfs_forget_buffer(9)
• nilfs_copy_buffer(9)
• nilfs_folio_buffers_clean(9)
• nilfs_copy_folio(9)
• nilfs_copy_back_pages(9)
• nilfs_clear_dirty_pages(9)
• nilfs_find_uncommitted_extent(9)

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byeee 👋💖 this was nilfs_clear_folio_dirty(9) from ./fs/nilfs2, dated October 2026 — footer vibes only, periodt 🎀✨