populate_page(9)

✨ populate_page(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the kernel API manual corner of the group chat 🫶 this one lives in section 9 and it's all about UBIFS doing that bulk-read thing. buckle up 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

populate_page — literally copies data nodes into a page so we can do a bulk-read 🔥

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int populate_page (struct ubifs_info *c , struct folio *folio , struct
bu_info *bu , int *n );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object, aka the whole vibe of the fs 💖
• folio — a folio. that's it. that's the description. iconic honestly 👑
• bu — bulk-read information, the receipts for the bulk-read 📋
• n — next zbranch slot, the pointer to where we're at 🎯

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

0 on success, and a negative error code on failure 😭 that's the whole story.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

kernel file ./fs/ubifs/file.c — and the whole friend group:

• release_new_page_budget(9)
• release_existing_page_budget(9)
• allocate_budget(9)
• cancel_budget(9)
• ubifs_do_bulk_read(9)
• ubifs_bulk_read(9)
• do_attr_changes(9)
• do_truncation(9)
• do_setattr(9)
• mctime_update_needed(9)
• update_mctime(9)

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ngl this page is short but she ate 💅 no cap, every single one of those references is right there for you to go read next 🧚

and that's a wrap, bestie 💜 this one's from ./fs/ubifs, dated October 2026 — go forth and bulk-read slay ✨🎀🦋