ice_release_global_cfg_lock(9)

💅 ice_release_global_cfg_lock — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so bestie, we're in ice_release_global_cfg_lock(9) territory today — that's the section 9 kernel API manual, and this one is short but she's important, okay? 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_release_global_cfg_lock — (and that's literally it, the description field is out here living its best empty life, no cap, nothing after the dash 🙈)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void ice_release_global_cfg_lock (struct ice_hw *hw );

like, that's the whole vibe. she takes one pointer and returns nothing. void. no notes. 💅

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• hw — pointer to the HW structure 🫶 that's your hardware struct, the main character of this whole operation.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what does she do? bestie. she releases the global config lock. that's it. that's the function. 🔥

you know that lock ice_acquire_global_cfg_lock went and grabbed? yeah. this is the girl who lets it go. the handoff. the "you're free now" moment. iconic behavior, honestly. 🦋

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

literally the entire ice DDP friend group, they all live in the same file — kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ddp.c — and here's the full roll call, every single one, no skipping 👑

• ice_verify_pkg(9)
• ice_free_seg(9)
• ice_chk_pkg_version(9)
• ice_pkg_val_buf(9)
• ice_find_buf_table(9)
• ice_pkg_enum_buf(9)
• ice_pkg_advance_sect(9)
• ice_pkg_enum_section(9)
• ice_pkg_enum_entry(9)
• ice_sw_fv_handler(9)
• ice_get_prof_index_max(9)
• ice_get_ddp_pkg_state(9)
• ice_init_pkg_regs(9)
• ice_marker_ptype_tcam_handler(9)
• ice_add_dvm_hint(9)
• ice_add_tunnel_hint(9)
• ice_label_enum_handler(9)
• ice_enum_labels(9)
• ice_boost_tcam_handler(9)
• ice_find_boost_entry(9)
• ice_is_init_pkg_successful(9)
• ice_pkg_buf_alloc(9)
• ice_get_sw_prof_type(9)
• ice_get_sw_fv_bitmap(9)
• ice_get_sw_fv_list(9)
• ice_init_prof_result_bm(9)
• ice_pkg_buf_free(9)
• ice_pkg_buf_reserve_section(9)
• ice_pkg_buf_alloc_section(9)
• ice_pkg_buf_alloc_single_section(9)
• ice_pkg_buf_get_active_sections(9)
• ice_pkg_buf(9)
• ice_acquire_global_cfg_lock(9) ← her other half, the one who takes the lock 🫶
• ice_aq_download_pkg(9)
• ice_is_buffer_metadata(9)
• struct ice_ddp_send_ctx(9)
• ice_ddp_send_hunk(9)
• ice_dwnld_cfg_bufs_no_lock(9)
• ice_get_pkg_seg_by_idx(9)
• ice_is_signing_seg_at_idx(9)
• ice_is_signing_seg_type_at_idx(9)
• ice_download_pkg_sig_seg(9)
• ice_download_pkg_config_seg(9)
• ice_dwnld_sign_and_cfg_segs(9)
• ice_match_signing_seg(9)
• ice_post_dwnld_pkg_actions(9)
• ice_download_pkg_with_sig_seg(9)
• ice_dwnld_cfg_bufs(9)
• ice_download_pkg_without_sig_seg(9)
• ice_download_pkg(9)
• ice_aq_get_pkg_info_list(9)
• ice_aq_update_pkg(9)
• ice_aq_upload_section(9)
• ice_update_pkg_no_lock(9)
• ice_update_pkg(9)
• ice_find_seg_in_pkg(9)
• ice_has_signing_seg(9)
• ice_get_pkg_segment_id(9)
• ice_get_pkg_sign_type(9)
• ice_get_signing_req(9)
• ice_init_pkg_info(9)
• ice_get_pkg_info(9)
• ice_chk_pkg_compat(9)
• ice_init_pkg_hints(9)
• ice_fill_hw_ptype(9)
• ice_init_pkg(9)
• ice_copy_and_init_pkg(9)
• ice_get_set_tx_topo(9)
• ice_cfg_tx_topo(9)

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ngl bestie, if you're calling this you better have actually held that global config lock. releasing a lock you never acquired is giving chaos energy and the kernel will NOT be amused 😭💀

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and that's the page!! ✨ this lil beauty lives under ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, the source/version line says October 2026, and the whole thing is filed under ice_release_global_cfg_lock(9) — mwah, go forth and unlock responsibly 💜🎀🦋