nilfs_skip_summary_info(9)

💅 nilfs_skip_summary_info(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the nilfs_skip_summary_info(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 💖 this one is short and sweet: it’s the kernel API function that skips items on summary blocks of a log. no cap. 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

nilfs_skip_summary_info — skip items on summary blocks of a log. literally that’s the whole vibe. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here’s the exact signature, bestie — don’t let the line breaks jump-scare you:

       void nilfs_skip_summary_info (struct the_nilfs *nilfs , struct
       buffer_head **pbh , unsigned int *offset , unsigned int bytes , unsigned
       long count );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• nilfs — the nilfs object. your main character context struct. 👑
• pbh — the current buffer head on summary blocks, marked [in, out] 🫶
• offset — the current byte offset on summary blocks, also marked [in, out] ✨
• bytes — byte size of the item to be skipped 🍓
• count — number of items to be skipped 💅

🔎 SEE ALSO 🔎

if you’re doing the deep-dive (iykyk), the Kernel file is ./fs/nilfs2/recovery.c, and these are the friends in the group chat:

• nilfs_compute_checksum(9)
• nilfs_read_super_root_block(9)
• nilfs_read_log_header(9)
• nilfs_validate_log(9)
• nilfs_read_summary_info(9)
• nilfs_scan_dsync_log(9)
• nilfs_do_roll_forward(9)
• nilfs_abort_roll_forward(9)
• nilfs_salvage_orphan_logs(9)
• nilfs_search_super_root(9)

that’s the whole page, bestie — short, iconic, and fully loaded with the facts. 😭💖 source/version: ./fs/nilfs2 · date: October 2026 — mwah 💋