refcount_read(9)

💅 refcount_read(9) 💅

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie — yes you're literally reading kernel docs rn and that's iconic of you 🎀 this one's a tiny lil page about peeking at a refcount's value, no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

refcount_read — get a refcount's value 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

unsigned int refcount_read (const refcount_t *r );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• r — the refcount 💖 like, the actual refcount you wanna look at, that's it, that's the whole argument

⭐ RETURN ⭐

the refcount's value ✨ (yes that's the entire return description, she's short and she's slaying)

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ngl this one is the low-key chillest function in the whole refcount friend group — no incrementing, no testing, no acquiring, just looking 👀 main character energy of minding your own business fr fr

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./include/linux/refcount.h — and here's the whole squad, all of them, in order, because we do not skip anyone in this house 🫶

• refcount_set(9)
• refcount_set_release(9)
• refcount_add_not_zero(9)
• refcount_add_not_zero_acquire(9)
• refcount_add(9)
• refcount_inc_not_zero(9)
• refcount_inc_not_zero_acquire(9)
• refcount_inc(9)
• refcount_sub_and_test(9)
• refcount_dec_and_test(9)
• refcount_dec(9)

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🌈 and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 💅 mwah 💋

source path ./include/linux, dated October 2026, page refcount_read(9) — official sign-off from the kernel girlies, catch you on the next manpage 💜🧚‍♀️