nbcon_kdb_release(9)

💅 nbcon_kdb_release(9) 💅

okay so this page lives in the Kernel API Manual, and it's giving “cleanup era” energy. nbcon_kdb_release is the one that exits the unsafe section and releases the nbcon console. periodt. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void nbcon_kdb_release (struct nbcon_write_context *wctxt );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• wctxt — the nbcon write context initialized by a successful nbcon_kdb_try_acquire. so iconic of it, honestly 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file: ./kernel/printk/nbcon.c — and the whole friend group is:

• nbcon_state_set(9)
• nbcon_state_read(9)
• nbcon_state_try_cmpxchg(9)
• nbcon_seq_read(9)
• nbcon_seq_force(9)
• nbcon_seq_try_update(9)
• nbcon_context_try_acquire_direct(9)
• nbcon_context_try_acquire_requested(9)
• nbcon_context_try_acquire_handover(9)
• nbcon_context_try_acquire_hostile(9)
• nbcon_context_try_acquire(9)
• nbcon_context_release(9)
• nbcon_context_can_proceed(9)
• nbcon_can_proceed(9)
• __nbcon_context_update_unsafe(9)
• nbcon_enter_unsafe(9)
• nbcon_exit_unsafe(9)
• nbcon_reacquire_nobuf(9)
• nbcon_emit_next_record(9)
• nbcon_kthread_should_wakeup(9)
• nbcon_kthread_func(9)
• nbcon_irq_work(9)
• nbcon_kthreads_wake(9)
• nbcon_kthread_create(9)
• nbcon_get_cpu_emergency_nesting(9)
• nbcon_get_default_prio(9)
• nbcon_allow_unsafe_takeover(9)
• nbcon_legacy_emit_next_record(9)
• __nbcon_atomic_flush_pending_con(9)
• nbcon_atomic_flush_pending_con(9)
• __nbcon_atomic_flush_pending(9)
• nbcon_atomic_flush_pending(9)
• nbcon_atomic_flush_unsafe(9)
• nbcon_cpu_emergency_enter(9)
• nbcon_cpu_emergency_exit(9)
• nbcon_alloc(9)
• nbcon_free(9)
• nbcon_device_try_acquire(9)
• nbcon_device_release(9)
• nbcon_kdb_try_acquire(9)
• nbcon_write_context_is_braille(9)
• nbcon_braille_try_acquire(9)
• nbcon_braille_release(9)

mwah 💋 — source/version: ./kernel/printk ; date: October 2026 ; page: nbcon_kdb_release(9).