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29.Dd December 8, 2019
30.Dt VGONE 9
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm vgone
34.Nd "prepare a vnode for reuse"
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In sys/param.h
37.In sys/vnode.h
38.Ft void
39.Fn vgone "struct vnode *vp"
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Fn vgone
43function prepares the vnode to be destroyed.
44The preparation includes the cleaning of all file system specific data and
45the removal from its mount point vnode list.
46.Pp
47If the vnode has a
48.Va v_usecount
49of zero, and its
50.Dv VIRF_DOOMED
51flag is not set, it is moved to the head of the free list
52as in most cases the vnode
53is about to be reused, or its file system is being unmounted.
54.Pp
55The
56.Fn vgone
57function takes an exclusively locked vnode, and returns with the vnode
58exclusively locked.
59.Sh SEE ALSO
60.Xr vnode 9
61.Sh AUTHORS
62This manual page was written by
63.An Chad David Aq Mt davidc@acns.ab.ca .
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