nilfs_forget_buffer(9)

🦋 NAME 🦋

Okay bestie, welcome to nilfs_forget_buffer(9) from the Kernel API Manual — literally the page for making a buffer discard its dirty state. That’s the whole vibe: discard dirty state. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void nilfs_forget_buffer (struct buffer_head *bh );

It’s void, so no return value is coming back — don’t wait up. 🫶

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• bh — buffer head of the buffer to be discarded. That’s the one and only argument, periodt. 🎀

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

Kernel file ./fs/nilfs2/page.c — the source location, iykyk. The whole squad is right here:

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

xoxo, footer vibes: ./fs/nilfs2, October 2026, nilfs_forget_buffer(9) 🧚💜