simple_offset_destroy(9)

✨ simple_offset_destroy(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and we're talking about simple_offset_destroy(9) — yes bestie, the whole page is literally named after the function, that's just how manpages do 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

simple_offset_destroy — release the offset map. that's it. that's the whole job. she's a one-task icon and honestly? respect 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void simple_offset_destroy (struct offset_ctx *octx );

no return value, no drama, just vibes and a pointer ✨

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• octx — the directory offset ctx that is about to be destroyed. like, it's literally on its way out the door, this is the goodbye hug 😭 it's a struct offset_ctx *.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so picture this: it's fs teardown time (think umount, the moment where everything packs up and goes home), and a directory's offset map might still have entries chilling in it. not empty. not clean. just... leftovers 🙈

and that's where xa_destroy comes in — it cleans out anything that remains. sweeps it all away. no cap, it just handles it 🧹✨

so simple_offset_destroy is basically the cleanup crew that shows up at the end of the party and makes sure nothing's left behind 💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

like, the whole friend group fr fr — Kernel file ./fs/libfs.c and all of these:

• simple_offset_init(9)
• simple_offset_add(9)
• simple_offset_remove(9)
• simple_offset_rename(9)
• simple_offset_rename_exchange(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)
• simple_inode_init_ts(9)
• path_from_stashed(9)
• simple_start_creating(9)

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⭐ that's the whole page bestie, go forth and destroy those offsets (the map, not the directory) 💀

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and that's a wrap! 🎀 this one's from the ./fs source, dated October 2026, and it's simple_offset_destroy(9) signing off — mwah 💋✨