What is the significance of __releases & __acquires in rpm_callback() of power/runtime.c ?

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While going thro’ run time power management code in K39 power/runtime.c file, am seeing a function definition as given below. Any idea, what “__releases” & “__acquires” are doing in this function definition?
 
static int rpm_callback(int (*cb)(struct device *), struct device *dev)
                __releases(&dev->power.lock) __acquires(&dev->power.lock)
{
                int retval;
                ….
                return retval;
}
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