do_promote(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 do_promote(9) — like, the glock's whole moment

okay so bestie, welcome to do_promote(9) from the Kernel API Manual — yes it's a real page, yes it's giving very niche-kernel-girlie, and yes we're gonna get through it together 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

do_promote — promote as many requests as possible on the current queue. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it's the little function that could, out here making the queue go up 🔥

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void do_promote (struct gfs2_glock *gl );

literally one line, no cap. it returns void, so she doesn't even give you a result back — she just does the thing and leaves 👑

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • gl — The glock. that's the whole description, bestie, the manpage is not being generous with us here 😭 it's a struct gfs2_glock *, it's the glock you're promoting stuff on, and honestly that's the entire tea.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay this is the part where the page absolutely spills. like, the whole friend group shows up. all of these live in the kernel file ./fs/gfs2/glock.c:

like… forty entries. she said "you want the whole syllabus? here's the whole syllabus" 💀 go read them, iykyk — this is the glock cinematic universe and do_promote is just one iconic episode 🌈

real talk though: the manpage tells us exactly two things — the signature and that gl is the glock — so don't go inventing extra behaviour in your head, bestie. stay in your lane, stay slaying 💅

mwah, that's the page! 🎀 this little drop comes to you from the kernel source spot ./fs/gfs2, dated October 2026, and it's filed under do_promote(9) — screenshot it, cite it, whatever, she ate 🍓✨

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