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📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 current_is_workqueue_rescuer 💅

okay so this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and honestly it's a whole mood check for workqueues — like, "hey, are you the rescuer bestie?" 🧚✨ no cap, that's genuinely the entire function.

🌸 NAME 🌸

current_is_workqueue_rescuer — is %current a workqueue rescuer? 👀

basically it's the vibe check for "am I the rescuer right now?"

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bool current_is_workqueue_rescuer (void );

that's it. that's the whole signature. she's simple, she's iconic 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • void — literally no arguments. zero. nada. nothing. she takes nothing from you and gives you a bool. queen behaviour 👑

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the tea is: this function determines whether current is a workqueue rescuer. 🫶

and like, the actual point of it — the reason it exists — is that you can call it from work functions to figure out whether you're currently being run off the rescuer task. that's the whole thing, iykyk. 🔥

ngl this is the kind of check you want to do inside a work function, bestie, not just out here vibing in the void.

💖 RETURN 💖

  • true — current is a workqueue rescuer. slay. ✨
  • false — current is not a workqueue rescuer. it's giving regular worker energy. 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay bestie, buckle up, because the cross-reference list on this one is enormous and I refuse to gatekeep a single entry. the kernel file to go read is ./kernel/workqueue.c 💜 and here's the whole friend group:

like I said. enormous. but every single one is there, periodt 💅🫶

and that's the page, bestie!! 🎀 source/version is ./kernel, dated October 2026 — go forth and rescuer-check responsibly ✨🦋💜

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