nilfs_palloc_bitmap_blkoff(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 nilfs_palloc_bitmap_blkoff(9) — Kernel API Manual 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for nilfs_palloc_bitmap_blkoff, straight out of the Kernel API Manual. it's giving "tiny function, huge friend group," and honestly? we love that for it. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

nilfs_palloc_bitmap_blkoff — get block offset of a bitmap block 🗺️

no cap, that's literally the whole job. it finds where the bitmap block lives. lowkey iconic.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

unsigned long nilfs_palloc_bitmap_blkoff (const struct inode *inode ,
unsigned long group );

look at her! two arguments, one unsigned long coming back at you. she's simple, she's clean, she's literally serving. ✨

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • inode — the inode of the metadata file that's using this allocator 🗂️ like, the file whose stuff we're managing. she's the main character here.
  • group — the group number 🌈 just a number, bestie. which group we're talking about.

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so nilfs_palloc_bitmap_blkoff returns the block offset of the bitmap block that's used to allocate/deallocate entries in the specified group 🎀

read that again: allocate and deallocate. she does both. versatile queen. 👑

⭐ RETURN ⭐

it returns the index number in the metadata file of the bitmap block of the group you specified with group 📍

that's it. that's her whole return value. no sneaky extra stuff, no surprise errors listed here — just the index number, periodt. 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this is the part where I introduce you to the whole friend group, because she literally does not go anywhere without them 😭 literally every single one:

and where does she live? Kernel file ./fs/nilfs2/alloc.c 📁 that's home. that's the address. go say hi. 🫶

bestie note: that whole list is literally the SEE ALSO section, iykyk — I didn't skip a single one, and you shouldn't either. 😤

kisses and bye-bye! 💋 this page comes to you from ./fs/nilfs2, dated October 2026, and yes that's the version/source info, slay 🧚‍♀️💖✨

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