STRUCT EVENTS_QUEUE(9)

✨ NAME ✨

struct events_queue — Describes a queue and its associated worker.

okay bestie, this is the struct events_queue(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and it’s lowkey giving dedicated queue main character energy 💅✨.

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

       struct events_queue {
           size_t sz;
           struct kfifo            kfifo;
           struct work_struct      notify_work;
           struct workqueue_struct *wq;
        };

🌸 Members 🌸

• sz — Size in bytes of the related kfifo 💖 literally the byte count, no cap.
• kfifo — A dedicated Kernel kfifo descriptor 🎀
• notify_work — A custom work item bound to this queue ✨
• wq — A reference to the associated workqueue 🔥

💖 Description 💖

Each protocol has its own dedicated events_queue descriptor. periodt — every protocol gets its own little queue situation 🦋💅.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/notify.c Theory of operation(9) — the source-file + theory-of-operation moment, iykyk 🌈
• struct scmi_notify_instance(9)
• struct scmi_event_header(9)
• struct scmi_registered_events_desc(9)
• struct scmi_registered_event(9)
• struct scmi_event_handler(9)
• scmi_lookup_and_call_event_chain(9)
• scmi_process_event_header(9)
• scmi_process_event_payload(9)
• scmi_events_dispatcher(9)
• scmi_notify(9)
• scmi_kfifo_free(9)
• scmi_initialize_events_queue(9)
• scmi_allocate_registered_events_desc(9)
• scmi_register_protocol_events(9)
• scmi_deregister_protocol_events(9)
• scmi_allocate_event_handler(9)
• scmi_free_event_handler(9)
• scmi_bind_event_handler(9)
• scmi_valid_pending_handler(9)
• scmi_register_event_handler(9)
• __scmi_event_handler_get_ops(9)
• scmi_get_active_handler(9)
• __scmi_enable_evt(9)
• scmi_put_handler_unlocked(9)
• scmi_event_handler_enable_events(9)
• scmi_notifier_register(9)
• scmi_notifier_unregister(9)
• scmi_devm_notifier_register(9)
• scmi_devm_notifier_unregister(9)
• scmi_protocols_late_init(9)
• scmi_notification_init(9)
• scmi_notification_quiesce(9)
• scmi_notification_exit(9)

xoxo bestie, footer check: source/version corner is ./drivers/firmware/arm_scmi, dated October 2026, and this was your girl struct events_queue(9) — mwah 💖🎀✨