alloc_workqueue_attrs(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to alloc_workqueue_attrs(9) from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this is the page for the function that allocates a workqueue_attrs 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct workqueue_attrs * alloc_workqueue_attrs (void );

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• void — no arguments, bestie. Not a single one. Zero. Nada. 🫶

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

This function allocates a brand-new workqueue_attrs, initializes it with default settings, and returns it right back to you. That's the whole vibe. 🎀

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🎀 RETURN 🎀

On success: the allocated new workqueue_attr 💖.

On failure: NULL 💀.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The kernel file is ./kernel/workqueue.c, and the whole friend group is here, no cap:

for_each_pool(9), for_each_pool_worker(9), for_each_pwq(9), worker_pool_assign_id(9),
unbound_effective_cpumask(9), get_work_pool(9), worker_set_flags(9),
worker_clr_flags(9), worker_enter_idle(9), worker_leave_idle(9),
find_worker_executing_work(9), move_linked_works(9), assign_work(9),
kick_pool_pick(9), kick_pool(9), wq_worker_running(9),
wq_worker_sleeping(9), wq_worker_tick(9), wq_worker_last_func(9),
wq_node_nr_active(9), wq_update_node_max_active(9), get_pwq(9),
put_pwq(9), put_pwq_unlocked(9), pwq_tryinc_nr_active(9),
pwq_activate_first_inactive(9), unplug_oldest_pwq(9),
node_activate_pending_pwq(9), pwq_dec_nr_active(9),
pwq_dec_nr_in_flight(9), try_to_grab_pending(9), work_grab_pending(9),
insert_work(9), queue_work_on(9), select_numa_node_cpu(9),
queue_work_node(9), queue_delayed_work_on(9), mod_delayed_work_on(9),
queue_rcu_work(9), worker_attach_to_pool(9), worker_detach_from_pool(9),
create_worker(9), set_worker_dying(9), idle_worker_timeout(9),
idle_cull_fn(9), maybe_create_worker(9), manage_workers(9),
process_one_work(9), process_scheduled_works(9), worker_thread(9),
rescuer_thread(9), check_flush_dependency(9), insert_wq_barrier(9),
flush_workqueue_prep_pwqs(9), __flush_workqueue(9), drain_workqueue(9),
flush_work(9), flush_delayed_work(9), flush_rcu_work(9),
cancel_work_sync(9), cancel_delayed_work(9),
cancel_delayed_work_sync(9), disable_work(9), disable_work_sync(9),
enable_work(9), disable_delayed_work(9), disable_delayed_work_sync(9),
enable_delayed_work(9), schedule_on_each_cpu(9),
execute_in_process_context(9), free_workqueue_attrs(9),
init_worker_pool(9), put_unbound_pool(9), get_unbound_pool(9),
wq_calc_pod_cpumask(9), apply_workqueue_attrs(9),
unbound_wq_update_pwq(9), wq_adjust_max_active(9), destroy_workqueue(9),
workqueue_set_max_active(9), workqueue_set_min_active(9),
current_work(9), current_is_workqueue_rescuer(9),
current_is_workqueue_mem_reclaim(9), workqueue_congested(9),
work_busy(9), set_worker_desc(9), print_worker_info(9),
show_one_workqueue(9), show_one_worker_pool(9), show_all_workqueues(9),
show_freezable_workqueues(9), rebind_workers(9),
restore_unbound_workers_cpumask(9), work_on_cpu_key(9),
freeze_workqueues_begin(9), freeze_workqueues_busy(9),
thaw_workqueues(9), workqueue_unbound_housekeeping_update(9),
workqueue_set_unbound_cpumask(9), workqueue_sysfs_register(9),
workqueue_sysfs_unregister(9), workqueue_init_early(9),
workqueue_init(9), llc_count_cores(9), llc_populate_cpu_shard_id(9),
precompute_cache_shard_ids(9), workqueue_init_topology(9)

mwah 💋 — this page is from ./kernel, dated October 2026, and it's the alloc_workqueue_attrs(9) manual page. periodt. 🎀