put_pwq_unlocked(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 put_pwq_unlocked — the Kernel API Manual girlies' edition 🎀

okay so this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and honestly? it's a tiny little icon and we stan a short function. let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

put_pwq_unlocked — it's put_pwq() but with the pool lock/unlock wrapped around it, like a little security blanket 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void put_pwq_unlocked (struct pool_workqueue *pwq );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • pwq — the pool_workqueue you're putting. it can be NULL bestie, no cap, that's literally allowed 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so it's put_pwq with locking. that's the whole vibe. it also lets you pass a NULL pwq and it will simply not be dramatic about it 💀

like, the function is doing the lock/unlock for you so you don't have to think about it, which is honestly main character energy of it. periodt ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file is ./kernel/workqueue.c and it's giving lore drop — here's the whole friend group 🫶

like, that's the whole group chat and every single one of them ate 🔥 iykyk

and that's the page bestie 💜 this one came straight out of ./kernel, dated October 2026 — so yeah, she's fresh, she's locked and unlocked simultaneously, she's put_pwq_unlocked(9). mwah 🎀✨

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