generic_test_bit_acquire(9)

✨ generic_test_bit_acquire(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for generic_test_bit_acquire — it's the function that determines, with acquire semantics, whether a bit is set. no cap, that's the whole assignment. 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

generic_test_bit_acquire — Determine, with acquire semantics, whether a bit is set. literally it's giving “is this bit set? with acquire semantics” and we're obsessed. periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool generic_test_bit_acquire (unsigned long nr , const volatile
       unsigned long *addr );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• nr — bit number to test. yes bestie, that's the bit number you're testing. 🔥
• addr — Address to start counting from. that's the address you start counting from, fr fr. 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./include/asm-generic/bitops/generic-non-atomic.h — go peek, iykyk 👑.

• generic___set_bit(9)
• generic___change_bit(9)
• generic___test_and_set_bit(9)
• generic___test_and_clear_bit(9)
• generic_test_bit(9)
• const_test_bit(9)

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this one lives in ./include/asm-generic/bitops, stamped October 2026, and it's the generic_test_bit_acquire(9) page. slay ✨