pdc_emergency_unlock(9)

🎀 pdc_emergency_unlock(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

pdc_emergency_unlock — unlock the linux pdc lock 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void pdc_emergency_unlock (void );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• void — no arguments. literally none. zero. the void is voiding. 🕳️✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so this call unlocks the linux pdc lock — and it's specifically for when we need some PDC functions (like pdc_add_valid) during kernel stack dump. that's the whole vibe. 🔓👑

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

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• Kernel file ./arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c
• f_extend(9)
• convert_to_wide(9)
• set_firmware_width(9)
• pdc_add_valid(9)
• pdc_instr(9)
• pdc_chassis_info(9)
• pdc_pat_chassis_send_log(9)
• pdc_chassis_disp(9)
• __pdc_cpu_rendezvous(9)
• pdc_cpu_rendezvous_lock(9)
• pdc_cpu_rendezvous_unlock(9)
• pdc_pat_get_PDC_entrypoint(9)
• pdc_chassis_warn(9)
• pdc_coproc_cfg(9)
• pdc_iodc_read(9)
• pdc_system_map_find_mods(9)
• pdc_system_map_find_addrs(9)
• pdc_model_info(9)
• pdc_model_sysmodel(9)
• pdc_model_versions(9)
• pdc_model_cpuid(9)
• pdc_model_capabilities(9)
• pdc_model_platform_info(9)
• pdc_cache_info(9)
• pdc_spaceid_bits(9)
• pdc_btlb_info(9)
• pdc_mem_map_hpa(9)
• pdc_lan_station_id(9)
• pdc_stable_read(9)
• pdc_stable_write(9)
• pdc_stable_get_size(9)
• pdc_stable_verify_contents(9)
• pdc_stable_initialize(9)
• pdc_get_initiator(9)
• pdc_pci_irt_size(9)
• pdc_pci_irt(9)
• pdc_pci_config_read(9)
• pdc_pci_config_write(9)
• pdc_tod_read(9)
• pdc_pim_toc11(9)
• pdc_pim_toc20(9)
• pdc_tod_set(9)
• pdc_iodc_print(9)
• pdc_iodc_getc(9)
• pdc_pat_cell_get_number(9)
• pdc_pat_cell_module(9)
• pdc_pat_cell_info(9)
• pdc_pat_cpu_get_number(9)
• pdc_pat_get_irt_size(9)
• pdc_pat_get_irt(9)
• pdc_pat_pd_get_addr_map(9)
• pdc_pat_pd_get_pdc_revisions(9)
• pdc_pat_pd_get_platform_counter(9)
• pdc_pat_io_pci_cfg_read(9)
• pdc_pat_io_pci_cfg_write(9)
• pdc_pat_mem_pdt_info(9)
• pdc_pat_mem_pdt_cell_info(9)
• pdc_pat_mem_read_cell_pdt(9)
• pdc_pat_mem_read_pd_pdt(9)
• pdc_pat_mem_get_dimm_phys_location(9)

that's the whole page, bestie 💖 source/version: ./arch/parisc/kernel; date: October 2026. stay iconic, stay unlocked 🎀🦋✨