svc_thread_init_status(9)

💅 svc_thread_init_status(9) — the "did my thread survive init" check-in

okay so bestie, welcome to the kernel API manual, section 9 of the manual pages, and today's main character is svc_thread_init_status ✨ she's a void function, she's lowkey dramatic (she might never return 😭), and she's here to tell the world whether a thread actually got its life together. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

svc_thread_init_status — the function that reports whether a thread has initialised successfully. that's it, that's the whole vibe check 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void svc_thread_init_status (struct svc_rqst *rqstp , int err );

two args, no return value, no cap. she just does her thing 🔥

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• rqstp — the thread in question. like, this thread. the one we're talking about 👀
• err — an errno code. a number that says how it went, basically 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the situation. after a sunrpc svc_thread does any of its initialisation that could potentially fail, and before it starts doing its normal work, it must call svc_thread_init_status — and it has to pass in an appropriate error, or zero if everything's chill 🍓

so like:

• if you pass zero, the thread is ready, she's thriving, and she must continue until svc_thread_should_stop returns true 👑
• if you pass a non-zero error, uh. the call will not return. 💀 like literally never comes back — the thread will exit. not me writing a function that ghosts you mid-call 😭

heads up bestie: that non-zero case is not a soft failure, the call genuinely doesn't return. the thread's gone. periodt 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

kernel file ./include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h, and also these absolute icons:

• svc_serv_maxpages(9)
• svc_thread_should_stop(9)
• svc_rqst_page_release(9)
• svcxdr_init_decode(9)
• svcxdr_init_encode(9)
• svcxdr_encode_opaque_pages(9)
• svcxdr_set_auth_slack(9)
• svcxdr_set_accept_stat(9)

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and that's the page, bestie 🧚 she lives in ./include/linux/sunrpc, and this particular glow-up was dated October 2026 — mwah, go forth and init responsibly 💜🎀