v9fs_free_inode(9)

💖 v9fs_free_inode(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes, THE kernel API manual, we're in the big leagues now 💅 this one's a tiny little function page from the 9p corner of the kernel and it's literally just one job: saying bye to an inode 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

v9fs_free_inode — destroy an inode 👋💀

like, not in a mean way!! it's a freeing thing, it's a release thing, it's giving closure 🌸

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void v9fs_free_inode (struct inode *inode );

that's it. that's the whole signature. no return value, no tricks, just vibes and a pointer 📌

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• inode — The inode to be freed 🎀 this is the one (1) thing you hand over, and it's the inode that's getting freed, periodt. no cap, that's the entire argument list.

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Kernel file ./fs/9p/vfs_inode.c — that's where the lore lives 📂✨ and honestly the whole 9p friend group shows up here:

• unixmode2p9mode(9)
• p9mode2perm(9)
• p9mode2unixmode(9)
• v9fs_uflags2omode(9)
• v9fs_blank_wstat(9)
• v9fs_alloc_inode(9)
• v9fs_evict_inode(9)
• v9fs_at_to_dotl_flags(9)
• v9fs_dec_count(9)
• v9fs_remove(9)
• v9fs_create(9)
• v9fs_vfs_create(9)
• v9fs_vfs_mkdir(9)
• v9fs_vfs_lookup(9)
• v9fs_vfs_unlink(9)
• v9fs_vfs_rmdir(9)
• v9fs_vfs_rename(9)
• v9fs_vfs_getattr(9)
• v9fs_vfs_setattr(9)
• v9fs_stat2inode(9)
• v9fs_vfs_get_link(9)
• v9fs_vfs_mkspecial(9)
• v9fs_vfs_symlink(9)
• v9fs_vfs_link(9)
• v9fs_vfs_mknod(9)

like, the entire group chat got @'d 😭 go read them too, iykyk 🦋

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ngl bestie, v9fs_alloc_inode(9) is literally the birth and this one is the departure — the circle of life, inode edition 🌈✨

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and that's the page!! mwah 💋 this came from ./fs/9p, dated October 2026 — so like, future icon behavior fr fr 👑💜 slay, bye 🎀