get_io_context(9)

✨ get_io_context ✨

okay so real talk, this one is a kernel API manual page — yes bestie, we're in the (9) section, that's the kernel developer section, don't panic 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

get_io_context — bump the reference count on an io_context, basically a little "hey, I'm still using this!!" for the kernel 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void get_io_context (struct io_context *ioc );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ioc — the io_context you're grabbing. that's the one you want to get. the target. the main character 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Increment the reference count to ioc.

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no cap, that is literally the entire description 😭 you call this, the refcount goes up, and the kernel knows not to yeet your io_context out of existence while you're still holding onto it. iconic behaviour honestly 🦋

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./block/blk-ioc.c — like, the actual source, go read it bestie, it's giving "all the answers are in here"
• ioc_clear_queue(9)
• put_io_context(9) — the other half of the equation, the letting-go one 💔
• ioc_lookup_icq(9)
• ioc_create_icq(9)

and that's the page!! 🎀 source is ./block, dated October 2026, so yeah, shoutout to the ./block girlies for this one — go forth and increment responsibly, mwah 💋✨