__acquire_ret(9)

✨ __acquire_ret(9) ✨

Hii bestie 💖 welcome to the __acquire_ret(9) page, straight out of the Kernel API Manual. This one is lowkey short and highkey specific, so let’s get into it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

__acquire_ret — helper to acquire context lock of return value ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

__acquire_ret (call , ret_expr );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

Okay so this helper takes two things, and yes, every detail matters:

• call — call expression 👑
• ret_expr — acquire expression that uses __ret 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

The way this page pulls up the whole context-analysis friend group 😭 — all of these are literally listed in the original, so here they are, no skips, fr fr:

• Kernel file ./include/linux/compiler-context-analysis.h 🧚
• __guarded_by(9)
• __pt_guarded_by(9)
• context_lock_struct(9)
• disable_context_analysis(9)
• enable_context_analysis(9)
• __no_context_analysis(9)
• context_unsafe(9)
• __context_unsafe(9)
• context_unsafe_alias(9)
• token_context_lock(9)
• token_context_lock_instance(9)
• __must_hold(9)
• __must_not_hold(9)
• __acquires(9)
• __cond_acquires(9)
• __releases(9)
• __cond_releases(9)
• __acquire(9)
• __release(9)
• __must_hold_shared(9)
• __acquires_shared(9)
• __cond_acquires_shared(9)
• __releases_shared(9)
• __acquire_shared(9)
• __release_shared(9)
• __acquire_shared_ret(9)

Okay bye bestie 🫶 huge cute sign-off shoutout to the source/version ./include/linux and the date October 2026 — that’s the footer, periodt 💅✨