kthread_flush_work(9)

💅 NAME 💅

Bestie, welcome to kthread_flush_work(9) from the Kernel API Manual — this one is literally here to flush a kthread_work. 🫶✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void kthread_flush_work (struct kthread_work *work );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• work — the work to flush. That's the whole argument, no cap. 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here's the tea: if work is queued or executing, you wait for it to finish execution. That's it. It's giving patience, bestie — just wait for it to wrap up. ⏳💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./kernel/kthread.c, plus the whole friend group:

• kthread_should_stop(9)
• kthread_should_park(9)
• kthread_freezable_should_stop(9)
• kthread_func(9)
• kthread_data(9)
• kthread_probe_data(9)
• kthread_complete_and_exit(9)
• kthread_create_on_node(9)
• kthread_bind(9)
• kthread_create_on_cpu(9)
• kthread_unpark(9)
• kthread_park(9)
• kthread_stop(9)
• kthread_stop_put(9)
• kthread_affine_preferred(9)
• kthreads_update_housekeeping(9)
• kthread_worker_fn(9)
• kthread_create_worker_on_node(9)
• kthread_create_worker_on_cpu(9)
• kthread_queue_work(9)
• kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn(9)
• kthread_queue_delayed_work(9)
• kthread_mod_delayed_work(9)
• kthread_cancel_work_sync(9)
• kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync(9)
• kthread_flush_worker(9)
• kthread_destroy_worker(9)
• kthread_use_mm(9)
• kthread_unuse_mm(9)
• kthread_associate_blkcg(9)
• kthread_blkcg(9)

That's the whole vibe! Source/version: ./kernel, dated October 2026 — catch you in the kernel, bestie 🫶💖🦋