rpc_run_task(9)

🦋 rpc_run_task(9) 🦋

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie — today's main character is rpc_run_task(9) and honestly? she's a whole vibe. buckle up 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

rpc_run_task — allocate a new RPC task, then run rpc_execute against it 🎀

like, that's it. that's the whole job. allocate the task, then yeet it straight into rpc_execute. no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct rpc_task * rpc_run_task (const struct rpc_task_setup
*task_setup_data );

she takes one thing and gives you back a struct rpc_task * — iconic behaviour, honestly 🫶

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• task_setup_data — pointer to task initialisation data ✨ that's the little bundle of info she needs to set the new task up before running it. give her the setup data, she handles the rest, periodt.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group, fr fr — all of these live in the kernel file ./net/sunrpc/clnt.c:

• rpc_create(9)
• rpc_clone_client(9)
• rpc_clone_client_set_auth(9)
• rpc_switch_client_transport(9)
• rpc_clnt_iterate_for_each_xprt(9)
• rpc_cancel_tasks(9)
• rpc_hold_client(9)
• rpc_release_client(9)
• rpc_bind_new_program(9)
• rpc_call_sync(9)
• rpc_call_async(9)
• rpc_run_bc_task(9)
• rpc_prepare_reply_pages(9)
• rpc_peeraddr(9)
• rpc_peeraddr2str(9)
• rpc_localaddr(9)
• rpc_net_ns(9)
• rpc_max_payload(9)
• rpc_max_bc_payload(9)
• rpc_force_rebind(9)
• rpc_clnt_test_and_add_xprt(9)
• rpc_clnt_setup_test_and_add_xprt(9)
• rpc_clnt_add_xprt(9)

go read them all, iykyk 👑

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and that's the page!! this one came from the source path ./net/sunrpc and she's dated October 2026 — the manpage itself is rpc_run_task(9), so if you forget everything else just remember her name 💜 stay slay, stay allocated, mwah 🧚