wb_tryget(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the wb_tryget(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — yes, that manual. This one is short and sweet: wb_tryget is the function that tries to increment a wb's refcount. That's the whole assignment. 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

the signature is literally right here, no cap:

bool wb_tryget (struct bdi_writeback *wb );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• wb — the bdi_writeback to get. that's it, that's the argument. 🫶

💅 SEE ALSO 💅

• Kernel file ./include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h — the related crew is wb_get(9), wb_put_many(9), wb_put(9), and wb_dying(9). iykyk ✨

xoxo, your kernel bestie 💜 — this page is from source/version ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and it's literally wb_tryget(9). periodt. 🎀