mlx5_esw_unlock(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for mlx5_esw_unlock(9). This function is literally here to release write lock on esw mode lock — that's the whole assignment, and she ate. 💅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the exact signature, no edits, no cap:

void mlx5_esw_unlock (struct mlx5_eswitch *esw );

return type is void, so she's not handing anything back — iconic behavior honestly. 🎀

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• esw — eswitch device. that's it, that's the one argument, bestie. 🫶

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

like, go look at these if you're doing the reading, iykyk:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c
• mlx5_esw_query_functions(9)
• mlx5_eswitch_enable_locked(9)
• mlx5_eswitch_enable(9)
• mlx5_esw_hold(9)
• mlx5_esw_release(9)
• mlx5_esw_get(9)
• mlx5_esw_put(9)
• mlx5_esw_try_lock(9)
• mlx5_eswitch_get_total_vports(9)
• mlx5_eswitch_get_core_dev(9)

okay that's the whole page, bestie. source/version from the footer was ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellano..., dated October 2026, and the page is mlx5_esw_unlock(9). mwah 💋✨