raw_atomic_l...tive_release(9)

✨ NAME ✨

raw_atomic_long_add_negative_release — bestie, this is the atomic add and test if negative with release ordering one 💅 (yes it's a lot of words, but it's literally in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, so she's kind of a big deal 👑)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bool raw_atomic_long_add_negative_release (long i , atomic_long_t *v );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• i — the long value you're adding, like the amount you're dropping into the pot 🍓
• v — pointer to the atomic_long_t, aka the thing getting updated, main character energy fr fr

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so picture this: it atomically updates v to (v + i) with release ordering ✨. Atomically means nobody gets to peek at a half-finished version of the value — it's all or nothing, no cap 🎀

Safe to use in noinstr code — that's the whole reason this raw_ version exists 🫶 But like, prefer atomic_long_add_negative_release elsewhere, because that's the prefect-sanctioned one and we don't do chaos for no reason 💀

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

true if the resulting value of v is negative, false otherwise 🌈 Simple as that, iykyk.

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

The vibe check: this function lives in the kernel file ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h 📁

And now, the entire raw_atomic_long_* extended universe — the whole group chat, alphabetically seated, nobody left out, periodt 💜

raw_atomic_long_read(9), raw_atomic_long_read_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_set(9), raw_atomic_long_set_release(9), raw_atomic_long_add(9), raw_atomic_long_add_return(9), raw_atomic_long_add_return_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_add_return_release(9), raw_atomic_long_add_return_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_add(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_add_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_add_release(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_add_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_sub(9), raw_atomic_long_sub_return(9), raw_atomic_long_sub_return_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_sub_return_release(9), raw_atomic_long_sub_return_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_sub(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_sub_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_sub_release(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_sub_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_inc(9), raw_atomic_long_inc_return(9), raw_atomic_long_inc_return_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_inc_return_release(9), raw_atomic_long_inc_return_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_inc(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_inc_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_inc_release(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_inc_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_dec(9), raw_atomic_long_dec_return(9), raw_atomic_long_dec_return_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_dec_return_release(9), raw_atomic_long_dec_return_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_dec(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_dec_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_dec_release(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_dec_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_and(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_and(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_and_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_and_release(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_and_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_andnot(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_andnot(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_andnot_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_andnot_release(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_andnot_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_or(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_or(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_or_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_or_release(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_or_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_xor(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_xor(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_xor_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_xor_release(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_xor_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_xchg(9), raw_atomic_long_xchg_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_xchg_release(9), raw_atomic_long_xchg_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_cmpxchg(9), raw_atomic_long_cmpxchg_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_cmpxchg_release(9), raw_atomic_long_cmpxchg_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_try_cmpxchg(9), raw_atomic_long_try_cmpxchg_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_try_cmpxchg_release(9), raw_atomic_long_try_cmpxchg_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_sub_and_test(9), raw_atomic_long_dec_and_test(9), raw_atomic_long_inc_and_test(9), raw_atomic_long_add_negative(9), raw_atomic_long_add_negative_acquire(9), raw_atomic_long_add_negative_relaxed(9), raw_atomic_long_fetch_add_unless(9), raw_atomic_long_add_unless(9), raw_atomic_long_inc_not_zero(9), raw_atomic_long_inc_unless_negative(9), raw_atomic_long_dec_unless_positive(9), raw_atomic_long_dec_if_positive(9)

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✿ and that's the whole page, bestie ✿ 🎀

Sources say this one comes from ./include/linux/atomic, dated October 2026, and it's filed under raw_atomic_l...tive_release(9) — the truncated-name icon that she is 💅 mwah, go touch some atomics 💜🦋