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