n_tty_kick_worker(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 n_tty_kick_worker ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🎀 — this is the page for n_tty_kick_worker, and honestly it's a little baddie with one job and it does it slayfully 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

n_tty_kick_worker — start input worker (if required) 🫶

like, if required, she's not gonna do it for no reason, iykyk ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void n_tty_kick_worker (const struct tty_struct *tty );

yes the spacing is exactly like that, don't @ me, i copied it verbatim 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • tty — terminal 🌈 (that's it, that's the whole argument, she's lowkey uncomplicated)

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so the whole vibe here: this function re-schedules the flip buffer work if it may have stopped 🔥 like, if the work has gone all sleepy and stopped doing its thing, this is the little nudge that gets it back on its feet. main character energy, fr fr 💫

🔒 Locking 🔒

this part is important, don't skip it 🙈 — the caller needs to be holding the right lock, and it's giving two valid situations:

  • Caller holds exclusive termios_rwsem, or
  • the n_tty_read/consumer path holds the non-exclusive termios_rwsem 🌸

so like, one of those two, okay? pick one, hold it properly, and you're golden ✨

ngl bestie, don't call this without the right lock — the locking note is literally right there for a reason 💀

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the whole friend group 🫶 — all of these live in the kernel file ./drivers/tty/n_tty.c:

and that's the page, bestie 💜 huge slay, go forth and kick that worker 🧚‍♀️

source: ./drivers/tty · dated: October 2026 · manual: Kernel API Manual 🌸 mwah, bye 💋

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