console_trylock_spinning(9)

💅 console_trylock_spinning(9) 💅

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie — this is the page for console_trylock_spinning(9), and it's giving very specific console-lock energy. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

console_trylock_spinning — try to get console_lock by busy waiting. that's the whole name vibe. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int console_trylock_spinning (void );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• void — literally no arguments. not a single one. she takes nothing. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: this lets you busy wait for the console_lock when the current owner is running inside specially marked sections. translation: the current owner is actively running and cannot reschedule until it is ready to lose the lock. that's the mechanic, periodt. ✨

⭐ RETURN ⭐

• 1 — we got the lock. slay. 💅
• 0 — otherwise. 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

these are all the linked pages, and they're hanging around the kernel file ./kernel/printk/printk.c:

• console_list_lock(9)
• 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)
• 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)

mwah 💋 source ./kernel/printk, version/date October 2026, page console_trylock_spinning(9) — bye bestie! 🎀✨