ubifs_garbage_collect_leb(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ ubifs_garbage_collect_leb ✨

okay so bestie, gather round, because this one is literally a kernel function from the UBIFS manual (Kernel API Manual, no cap) and it's giving "I clean up your mess" energy 💅

💖 NAME 💖

ubifs_garbage_collect_leb — garbage-collect a logical eraseblock. fr fr, that's its whole job, and it ate 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ubifs_garbage_collect_leb (struct ubifs_info *c , struct
       ubifs_lprops *lp );

that's the whole signature bestie, and the way that it returns an int?? iconic. it takes two structs and does Not elaborate further, iykyk 🔥

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • c — UBIFS file-system description object. it's the whole vibe of the file system basically, like the main character of the data structure world 👑
  • lp — describes the LEB to garbage collect. this one's the little baby that tells you which logical eraseblock we're cleaning up 🧹

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea ☕: this function garbage-collects an LEB, and when it succeeds it returns one of the LEB_FREED, LEB_RETAINED, etc. positive codes 💖 (yes there's a whole little family of them, etc. and all).

but if things need a commit first? it hits you with -EAGAIN so you know to come back later, no hard feelings 🙈

and if stuff actually goes wrong? you get other negative error codes in case of failures 😭 so like, the vibe check can fail, and you'll know because the return value goes negative. periodt.

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

bestie you KNOW we gotta shout out the whole friend group in the Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/gc.c — these are all lowkey besties with our function:

literally the gc.c squad, obsessed 🦋✨

and that's the page bestie!! 💜 the source material lives at ./fs/ubifs, the version is Kernel API Manual, and it's dated October 2026 — so like, it's lowkey from the future but we're moving with it 🎀✨ slay, go collect that garbage, ily 🫶

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