queued_spin_lock(9)

🎀 queued_spin_lock(9) 🎀

hiii bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for queued_spin_lock — the lock-acquiring moment that’s lowkey iconic. ✨

💖 NAME 💖

queued_spin_lock — acquire a queued spinlock. That’s the whole assignment, no cap. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void queued_spin_lock (struct qspinlock *lock );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• lock — pointer to queued spinlock structure. You’re handing it the lock pointer, and yes, it points at a struct qspinlock, periodt. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The kernel file ./include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h is the main-character source here, and these besties are all linked up:

• queued_spin_is_locked(9)
• queued_spin_value_unlocked(9)
• queued_spin_is_contended(9)
• queued_spin_trylock(9)
• queued_spin_release(9)
• queued_spin_unlock(9)

okay that’s the whole page, bestie — source/version vibes from ./include/asm-generic, dated October 2026, and queued_spin_lock(9) is officially signed off. mwah 💋✨