find_first_holder(9)

🦋 find_first_holder(9) — the Kernel API Manual moment 🦋

okay so bestie, welcome to find_first_holder(9) from the Kernel API Manual — yes the whole manual, we're fancy here 💅. This is the page that finds the first "holder" gh. That's it. That's the vibe. Lowkey iconic for how tiny it is.

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✨ NAME ✨

find_first_holder — find the first "holder" gh

yes it literally says gh in the official description and we are NOT touching it, that's canon, periodt 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct gfs2_holder * find_first_holder (const struct gfs2_glock *gl );

it's giving "one function, one job, no drama" ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• gl — the glock. that's the whole argument. one (1) glock, that's what you're handing over 🫶

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay so this page has the biggest friend group in the whole glock file, and honestly? obsessed. It's all from the kernel file ./fs/gfs2/glock.c:

• wake_up_glock(9)
• gfs2_glock_hold(9)
• gfs2_glock_put(9)
• may_grant(9)
• do_error(9)
• do_promote(9)
• find_first_waiter(9)
• find_last_waiter(9)
• state_change(9)
• finish_xmote(9)
• do_xmote(9)
• run_queue(9)
• glock_set_object(9)
• glock_clear_object(9)
• gfs2_glock_get(9)
• __gfs2_holder_init(9)
• gfs2_holder_reinit(9)
• gfs2_holder_uninit(9)
• gfs2_glock_holder_ready(9)
• gfs2_glock_wait(9)
• gfs2_glock_async_wait(9)
• request_demote(9)
• add_to_queue(9)
• gfs2_glock_nq(9)
• gfs2_glock_poll(9)
• gfs2_glock_dq(9)
• gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(9)
• gfs2_glock_nq_num(9)
• glock_compare(9)
• nq_m_sync(9)
• gfs2_glock_nq_m(9)
• gfs2_glock_dq_m(9)
• gfs2_should_freeze(9)
• gfs2_glock_complete(9)
• glock_hash_walk(9)
• thaw_glock(9)
• gfs2_glock_thaw(9)
• gfs2_wait_glocks(9)
• dump_holder(9)
• gfs2_dump_glock(9)

like... forty whole friends 😭 she said "no cap, I know everyone at this function". Go read all of them, iykyk 💜

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that's the whole page bestie, short and slay 🔥 — brought to you by the source ./fs/gfs2, dated October 2026, and forever filed under find_first_holder(9). byeee 🧚‍♀️💖