mutex_init(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to mutex_init(9) from the Kernel API Manual — the little init moment that gets your mutex ready 💖

mutex_init — initialize the mutex

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mutex_init (mutex );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• mutex — the mutex to be initialized 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Initialize the mutex to unlocked state. ✨ That's the whole glow-up.

It is not allowed to initialize an already locked mutex. 🚫🔒 Like, do not even try it, bestie — that's the rule, periodt.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./include/linux/mutex.h 👀
• mutex_init_with_key(9)
• mutex_is_locked(9)

mwah 💋 that's the whole page — signed off from ./include/linux, October 2026, for mutex_init(9) 🫶