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34 .Nd Release a previously obtained primary reference for a vnode
39 .Fn vrele "struct vnode *vp"
41 The caller is holding a primary reference to the vnode and wishes to
43 .Bl -tag -width ".Fa vp"
45 The vnode being released.
48 Any code in the system which obtains a primary reference to a vnode via
50 typically releases that reference with
52 when it is finished with the vnode.
53 Upon release of the last primary
54 reference, the vnode will be deactivated and either moved to the free
55 list for later reuse or marked as being cache.
56 The vnode can be reactivated at any time prior to the system reusing it.
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