kfifo_free(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this is kfifo_free(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and its whole personality is literally this: it frees the fifo. That’s the job. That’s the vibe. The fifo gets freed, periodt 💅✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kfifo_free (fifo );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• fifo — the fifo to be freed. She’s the main character here, and she is getting freed 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./include/linux/kfifo.h is where the whole kfifo friend group lives, and here’s the full squad — not a single bestie left out, no cap:

• DECLARE_KFIFO_PTR(9)
• DECLARE_KFIFO(9)
• INIT_KFIFO(9)
• DEFINE_KFIFO(9)
• kfifo_initialized(9)
• kfifo_esize(9)
• kfifo_recsize(9)
• kfifo_size(9)
• kfifo_reset(9)
• kfifo_reset_out(9)
• kfifo_len(9)
• kfifo_is_empty(9)
• kfifo_is_empty_spinlocked(9)
• kfifo_is_empty_spinlocked_noirqsave(9)
• kfifo_is_full(9)
• kfifo_avail(9)
• kfifo_skip_count(9)
• kfifo_skip(9)
• kfifo_peek_len(9)
• kfifo_alloc(9)
• kfifo_alloc_node(9)
• kfifo_init(9)
• kfifo_put(9)
• kfifo_get(9)
• kfifo_peek(9)
• kfifo_in(9)
• kfifo_in_spinlocked(9)
• kfifo_in_spinlocked_noirqsave(9)
• kfifo_out(9)
• kfifo_out_spinlocked(9)
• kfifo_out_spinlocked_noirqsave(9)
• kfifo_from_user(9)
• kfifo_to_user(9)
• kfifo_dma_in_prepare_mapped(9)
• kfifo_dma_in_finish(9)
• kfifo_dma_out_prepare_mapped(9)
• kfifo_dma_out_finish(9)
• kfifo_out_peek(9)
• kfifo_out_linear(9)
• kfifo_out_linear_ptr(9)

Signed with love from ./include/linux, dated October 2026 — mwah, go free that fifo bestie 💖✨🫶