__must_hold_shared(9)

💅 __must_hold_shared(9) — the shared-lock vibe check ✨

okay so bestie, this page is from the Kernel API Manual, and it’s giving “tiny attribute, very serious lock energy.” no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

__must_hold_shared — function attribute, caller must hold shared context lock 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

__must_hold_shared (... );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ... — variable arguments

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This is a function attribute that is literally declaring the caller must hold the given context lock instance(s) with shared access. that’s the whole assignment, and it ate. 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read these too, bestie — they’re all part of the context-analysis cinematic universe 💖

• 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)
• __acquires_shared(9)
• __cond_acquires_shared(9)
• __releases_shared(9)
• __acquire_shared(9)
• __release_shared(9)
• __acquire_ret(9)
• __acquire_shared_ret(9)

okay that’s the page! source/version energy: ./include/linux, dated October 2026. mwah 💋✨