context_unsafe(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to context_unsafe(9) from the Kernel API Manual. this is context_unsafe — disable context checking for contained code. that’s the whole main-character premise, no cap ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

context_unsafe (... );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• ... — variable arguments. literally just that, bestie 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

context_unsafe disables context checking for contained statements or expression. yes, that’s the vibe: the contained code gets a little context-checking break. slay 🎀

here’s the example exactly as the page gives it, because the shape matters:

struct some_data {
        spinlock_t lock;
        int counter __guarded_by(lock);
};

int foo(struct some_data *d)
{
        // ...
        // other code that is still checked ...
        // ...
        return context_unsafe(d->counter);
}

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the page also shouts out the kernel file ./include/linux/compiler-context-analysis.h, plus all of these iconic references:

• __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_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)
• __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)

footer vibes: source/version ./include/linux, dated October 2026 — mwah, bestie 💋✨