The actual locking and unlocking APIs for the mutex lock are as follows. The following code shows how to lock and unlock a mutex, respectively:
void __sched mutex_lock(struct mutex *lock);
void __sched mutex_unlock(struct mutex *lock);
(Ignore __sched here; it's just a compiler attribute that has this function disappear in the WCHAN output, which shows up in procfs and with certain option switches to ps(1) (such as -l)).
Again, the comments within the source code in kernel/locking/mutex.c are very detailed and descriptive; I encourage you to take a look at this file in more detail. We've only shown some of its code here, which has been taken directly from the 5.4 Linux kernel source tree:
// kernel/locking/mutex.c
[ ... ]
/**
* mutex_lock - acquire the mutex
* @lock: the mutex to be acquired
*
* Lock the mutex exclusively for this task. If the mutex is not
* available right now, it will sleep until it can get it...
