locks_delete_block(9)

okay so welcome to locks_delete_block(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual — this is the page about stopping the wait for a file lock, and it’s lowkey iconic 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

locks_delete_block — stop waiting for a file lock ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int locks_delete_block (struct file_lock *waiter );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• waiter — the lock which was waiting 👀 like, the lock that’s been sitting there waiting its turn.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here’s the tea, bestie: lockd/nfsd need to disconnect the lock while working on it 🫶 that’s the whole vibe — this is the “stop waiting for a file lock” situation, fr fr.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the kernel file ./fs/locks.c is linked, and these are the SEE ALSO besties:

• locks_owner_has_blockers(9)
• lease_open_conflict(9)
• posix_lock_file(9)
• posix_lock_inode_wait(9)
• inode_lease_ignore_mask(9)
• __break_lease(9)
• lease_get_mtime(9)
• __fcntl_getlease(9)
• generic_setlease(9)
• vfs_setlease(9)
• fcntl_setlease(9)
• fcntl_setdeleg(9)
• flock_lock_inode_wait(9)
• locks_lock_inode_wait(9)
• sys_flock(9)
• vfs_test_lock(9)
• locks_translate_pid(9)
• vfs_lock_file(9)
• vfs_cancel_lock(9)
• vfs_inode_has_locks(9)

mwah 💋 this cutie comes from ./fs, dated October 2026, and yes bestie — it’s still locks_delete_block(9) 💜