raw_atomic_add(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 raw_atomic_add(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to your new fave page in the Kernel API Manual 🎀 — yes, the raw_atomic_add(9) one. grab a strawberry drink, we're doing atomics ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

raw_atomic_add — atomic add, but make it relaxed ordering 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void raw_atomic_add (int i , atomic_t *v );

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • i — the int value you're adding. literally just a number, no drama 💜
  • v — pointer to atomic_t. this is the thing getting updated, she's the main character 👑

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So the way that this works is — it atomically updates v to (v + i) with relaxed ordering ⭐. atomically. as in, no one can catch her mid-update, she's built different 💀

It's safe to use in noinstr code — that's the whole point of the raw_ version, iykyk 🧚.

but fr fr, prefer atomic_add elsewhere 🙈. like, raw_atomic_add is the special-occasion one, not the everyday one. save her for when you actually need her 👑

🫶 RETURN 🫶

Nothing. no return value, no crumbs, nothing to collect 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

first up, the kernel file where this lives, because we always cite our sources bestie: ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h 📁

and now... the whole family. every single one. no skipping, no summarising, we list all of them because that's what icons do 👑✨

and that's the whole roster, ate and left no crumbs 💅✨

okay so this came out of ./include/linux/atomic, and the version/date stamp on it is October 2026 🗓️ — that's the vibe check, that's the receipts. love u, go add some integers atomically, mwah 🫶💖🎀

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