VGONE(9)

💖 VGONE(9) — the vibe is "let's recycle this vnode" 💖

from the Kernel Developer's Manual ✨ manual section 9, bestie

🌸 NAME 🌸

vgone — get a vnode all dolled up and ready to be reused 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/vnode.h>

void
vgone(struct vnode *vp);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. The vgone() function is literally prepping a vnode for destruction 💀 and that prep is a whole routine, not just a vibe check. It includes:

• cleaning up all the file system specific data 🧼
• removing the vnode from its mount point vnode list 📋

and here's the juicy part: if the vnode has a v_usecount of zero, and its VI_DOOMED flag is not set, then it gets moved to the head of the free list 👑 — because in most cases the vnode is about to be reused, or its file system is being unmounted. it's giving "recycling era" ♻️

Also, no cap: vgone() takes an exclusively locked vnode, and returns with the vnode exclusively locked. lock in, lock out, periodt 🔒

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• vnode(9)

👑 AUTHORS 👑

This manual page was written by Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca> 💜

k bye bestie, this one came from Debian and is dated November 12, 2010 — love that for us, mwah 💅✨