__releases(9)

💅 NAME 💅

okay bestie, welcome to __releases(9) from the Kernel API Manual ✨

__releases — function attribute, function releases a context lock exclusively 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

__releases (... );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• ... — variable arguments 💖

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So this is a function attribute, and what it's declaring is that the function releases the given context lock instance(s) exclusively — like, it's giving exclusive release energy, no sharing vibes here 💅

The associated context(s) must be active on entry. That part is not optional, bestie 👑

TL;DR: function attribute → function releases the given context lock instance(s) exclusively → associated context(s) gotta be active on entry. periodt. 🔥

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Kernel file ./include/linux/compiler-context-analysis.h — here's the whole squad 🫶

• __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)
• __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_ret(9)
• __acquire_shared_ret(9)

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cute little sign-off, bestie: the footer says ./include/linux, October 2026, __releases(9) — and that's the whole page, mwah 💋💖