release_exis..._page_budget(9)

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie 💖 today's main character is release_existing_page_budget — the header squishes her name into release_exis..._page_budget(9), and honestly? the truncation is a little iconic 😭✨ let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

release_existing_page_budget — release budget of an existing page. periodt 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void release_existing_page_budget (struct ubifs_info *c );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• c — UBIFS file-system description object. the whole file-system situation lives here 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: there is already one page of data chillin' on the flash media 🌸. This is a helper function, and what she does is release the budget corresponding to the budget of changing that one page of data which already exists on the flash media. it's giving helper-function main character energy, no cap 💖

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/file.c
• release_new_page_budget(9)
• allocate_budget(9)
• cancel_budget(9)
• populate_page(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)

source/version: ./fs/ubifs · date: October 2026 · page tag: release_exis..._page_budget(9) — mwah 💋 stay budget-safe, bestie 🫶