nbcon_irq_work(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so nbcon_irq_work(9) is from the Kernel API Manual, and it’s giving tiny-but-essential. nbcon_irq_work — irq work to wake console printer thread. That’s the whole flex: this irq work wakes the console printer thread. 💅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void nbcon_irq_work (struct irq_work *irq_work );

short, sweet, and exactly iconic. periodt. 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• irq_work — The irq work to operate on. like, the actual irq work we’re operating on, bestie. no cap. 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./kernel/printk/nbcon.c — and then the whole friend group, all exact and accounted for:

• nbcon_state_set(9)
• nbcon_state_read(9)
• nbcon_state_try_cmpxchg(9)
• nbcon_seq_read(9)
• nbcon_seq_force(9)
• nbcon_seq_try_update(9)
• nbcon_context_try_acquire_direct(9)
• nbcon_context_try_acquire_requested(9)
• nbcon_context_try_acquire_handover(9)
• nbcon_context_try_acquire_hostile(9)
• nbcon_context_try_acquire(9)
• nbcon_context_release(9)
• nbcon_context_can_proceed(9)
• nbcon_can_proceed(9)
• __nbcon_context_update_unsafe(9)
• nbcon_enter_unsafe(9)
• nbcon_exit_unsafe(9)
• nbcon_reacquire_nobuf(9)
• nbcon_emit_next_record(9)
• nbcon_kthread_should_wakeup(9)
• nbcon_kthread_func(9)
• nbcon_kthreads_wake(9)
• nbcon_kthread_create(9)
• nbcon_get_cpu_emergency_nesting(9)
• nbcon_get_default_prio(9)
• nbcon_allow_unsafe_takeover(9)
• nbcon_legacy_emit_next_record(9)
• __nbcon_atomic_flush_pending_con(9)
• nbcon_atomic_flush_pending_con(9)
• __nbcon_atomic_flush_pending(9)
• nbcon_atomic_flush_pending(9)
• nbcon_atomic_flush_unsafe(9)
• nbcon_cpu_emergency_enter(9)
• nbcon_cpu_emergency_exit(9)
• nbcon_alloc(9)
• nbcon_free(9)
• nbcon_device_try_acquire(9)
• nbcon_device_release(9)
• nbcon_kdb_try_acquire(9)
• nbcon_kdb_release(9)
• nbcon_write_context_is_braille(9)
• nbcon_braille_try_acquire(9)
• nbcon_braille_release(9)

mwah 💋 this lil page came from source/version ./kernel/printk, dated October 2026. go forth and wake that console printer thread, bestie. 🦋👑