console_list_lock(9)

✨ NAME ✨

console_list_lock — lock the console list, bestie! Straight outta the Kernel API Manual, this is the little lock with main-character energy for console list updates. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void console_list_lock (void );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• void — no arguments. Literally none. Not a single one. Periodt. 💀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

It's giving "lock the console list." This one is for console list or console->flags updates. That's the vibe, that's the job, no cap. 🔥

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./kernel/printk/printk.c, plus the whole group chat:

• console_list_unlock(9)
• console_srcu_read_lock(9)
• console_srcu_read_unlock(9)
• console_lock_spinning_enable(9)
• console_lock_spinning_disable_and_check(9)
• console_trylock_spinning(9)
• printk_parse_prefix(9)
• add_preferred_console(9)
• match_devname_and_update_preferred_console(9)
• console_suspend_all(9)
• console_cpu_notify(9)
• console_lock(9)
• console_trylock(9)
• console_unlock(9)
• console_flush_on_panic(9)
• printk_kthreads_shutdown(9)
• console_force_preferred_locked(9)
• pr_flush(9)
• wake_up_klogd(9)
• defer_console_output(9)
• printk_trigger_flush(9)
• printk_timed_ratelimit(9)
• kmsg_dump_register(9)
• kmsg_dump_unregister(9)
• kmsg_dump_desc(9)
• kmsg_dump_get_line(9)
• kmsg_dump_get_buffer(9)
• kmsg_dump_rewind(9)
• console_try_replay_all(9)
• __printk_cpu_sync_wait(9)
• __printk_cpu_sync_try_get(9)
• __printk_cpu_sync_put(9)

🫶 Kisses from the Kernel API Manual — source ./kernel/printk, dated October 2026. Slay. 💖