thaw_glock(9)

💖 thaw_glock(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for thaw_glock(9) — yes that's the real manual section number, we're in kernel hacker territory now, and honestly? you're gonna slay this 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

thaw_glock — thaw out a glock which has an unprocessed reply waiting 🌸

like, the glock was frozen (paused, vibing in limbo), and there's a reply just sitting there, unprocessed, and this function is the one that goes "okay bestie, you're free, let's GO" 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void thaw_glock (struct gfs2_glock *gl );

that's it. that's the whole signature. no return value, it's a void, it just does the thing and dips 💅

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• gl — The glock to thaw 👑 this is the one and only thing you hand over. The glock that's about to get its glow-up out of the frozen state.

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the whole friendgroup, fr fr — this function does not roll alone 💀

• wake_up_glock(9)
• gfs2_glock_hold(9)
• gfs2_glock_put(9)
• may_grant(9)
• do_error(9)
• find_first_holder(9)
• do_promote(9)
• find_first_waiter(9)
• find_last_waiter(9)
• state_change(9)
• finish_xmote(9)
• do_xmote(9)
• run_queue(9)
• glock_set_object(9)
• glock_clear_object(9)
• gfs2_glock_get(9)
• __gfs2_holder_init(9)
• gfs2_holder_reinit(9)
• gfs2_holder_uninit(9)
• gfs2_glock_holder_ready(9)
• gfs2_glock_wait(9)
• gfs2_glock_async_wait(9)
• request_demote(9)
• add_to_queue(9)
• gfs2_glock_nq(9)
• gfs2_glock_poll(9)
• gfs2_glock_dq(9)
• gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(9)
• gfs2_glock_nq_num(9)
• glock_compare(9)
• nq_m_sync(9)
• gfs2_glock_nq_m(9)
• gfs2_glock_dq_m(9)
• gfs2_should_freeze(9)
• gfs2_glock_complete(9)
• glock_hash_walk(9)
• gfs2_glock_thaw(9)
• gfs2_wait_glocks(9)
• dump_holder(9)
• gfs2_dump_glock(9)

also, for the record, the kernel file lives at ./fs/gfs2/glock.c — that's where all the magic happens 🧚

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💜 lowkey reminder: this page is filed under the ./fs/gfs2 source, dated October 2026, and it's thaw_glock(9) in the Kernel API Manual — so if you're citing it, that's the glow-up receipt, iykyk 🔥

okay that's the whole thing, you ate that, periodt 🎀✨