simple_inode_init_ts(9)

💅 simple_inode_init_ts — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so bestie, you found a manual page called simple_inode_init_ts and it lives in the Kernel API Manual section (that's section 9, iykyk — kernel developer vibes only 🧚). Let me tell you everything about it, no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

simple_inode_init_ts — literally the function that initializes the timestamps for a brand-new inode 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct timespec64 simple_inode_init_ts (struct inode *inode );

That's it. That's the whole shape of it. She takes one struct inode * and hands you back a struct timespec64. Iconic.

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• inode — the inode you want to be initialized. That's the one. She's the main character here 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea ☕: when a new inode gets created, most filesystems set the timestamps to the current time. Every single one of them, doing the same little timestamp dance 🙈. So the kernel devs were like "bestie, why are we all writing this ourselves" and added a helper to do exactly that. That's this function. Periodt. 💅

ngl it's a small one, but the way it saves every filesystem from copy-pasting the same lines? obsessed. 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./fs/libfs.c — and honestly the whole friend group is here, so let me introduce you:

• simple_offset_init(9)
• simple_offset_add(9)
• simple_offset_remove(9)
• simple_offset_rename(9)
• simple_offset_rename_exchange(9)
• simple_offset_destroy(9)
• offset_dir_llseek(9)
• offset_readdir(9)
• simple_rename_timestamp(9)
• simple_setattr(9)
• simple_write_end(9)
• simple_read_from_buffer(9)
• simple_write_to_buffer(9)
• memory_read_from_buffer(9)
• generic_encode_ino32_fh(9)
• generic_fh_to_dentry(9)
• generic_fh_to_parent(9)
• simple_fsync_noflush(9)
• simple_fsync(9)
• generic_check_addressable(9)
• simple_get_link(9)
• generic_ci_d_compare(9)
• generic_ci_d_hash(9)
• generic_ci_match(9)
• generic_set_sb_d_ops(9)
• inode_maybe_inc_iversion(9)
• inode_query_iversion(9)
• path_from_stashed(9)
• simple_start_creating(9)

like, the whole libfs.c squad showed up to the group chat and they all ate 💀🔥

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and that's the page, bestie! 🌈 this little gem comes from the ./fs corner of the tree, from October 2026, and it's filed under simple_inode_init_ts(9). go forth and init those timestamps, you absolute icon 💜⭐