__release(9)

💅 __release 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this one's a tiny little icon, so buckle up 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

__release — the function that releases a context lock, and it does it exclusively, periodt 💅

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🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

__release (x );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• x — the context lock instance pointer. that's it, that's the whole vibe check 🦋

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like… this is a no-op function 😭 it literally does nothing, but make no mistake, it's still main character energy: it's the marker that says you're releasing the given context lock instance x. No cap. It's giving "I'm here for the annotation, not the action" ✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the rest of the context-analysis fam, all hanging out in the kernel file ./include/linux/compiler-context-analysis.h — go say hi to all of them, iykyk 💖

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

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and that's the whole page, babe 🫶 this cutie lives in ./include/linux and it's dated October 2026 — go forth and release those context locks exclusively, slay 💜✨