kick_pool(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ kick_pool(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (section 9, kernel-space club only 🎀), and honestly? it's a little one but it's a loud one. it's the "hey bestie, wake up" syscall-adjacent moment of the workqueue world. let's get into it 💅

💖 NAME 💖

kick_pool — wake up an idle worker if necessary

like, that's it. that's the whole job. wake the sleepy little worker. no cap.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bool kick_pool (struct worker_pool *pool );

she takes one pointer and gives you back a bool. short, sweet, iconic 👑

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • pool — the pool to kick. yes. that's the pool. you kick it. 🦵💥 the original page literally just says "pool to kick" and honestly? respect the brevity.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe check: pool may have pending work items sitting there, just… waiting. and this function's whole main-character moment is to wake up a worker if necessary. that's the assignment and she ate. 🔥

and she's not just doing it silently — she returns whether a worker was woken up. so you get receipts. true if somebody got got out of bed, false if nobody needed to. fr fr, that's the entire contract 🫶

ngl there is nothing else on this page — no options, no env vars, no exit statuses, no signal drama, no bugs section. it's a one-job function and it knows it 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

first up, the source neighborhood: the kernel file ./kernel/workqueue.c 🧚 — that's where the whole party lives. and then, bestie, buckle up, because the cross-reference list here is long. like, scroll-for-days long. every single one matters, so here's the full roll call in the order the page gives them:

like. she said "here's my whole friend group, meet everyone" 😭💜 and yes, that's every single one — no gatekeeping on this page.

🎀 cute sign-off 🎀

this absolute gem comes from the source tree at ./kernel, dated October 2026 — so yeah, she's from the future-ish and she's thriving. read her, cite her, kick your pools responsibly. periodt. 💅✨🦋

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