wakeup_readers(9)

💖 wakeup_readers(9) — Kernel API Manual 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for wakeup_readers(9). it's short, it's sweet, and it's lowkey iconic. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

wakeup_readers — wake up readers waiting on a channel. periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void wakeup_readers (struct irq_work *work );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• work — contains the channel buffer. that's the whole assignment for this argument, no cap 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This is the function used to defer reader waking. literally its entire personality. it's giving "not right now bestie, but soon" energy — and the page says exactly that much, so we're not inventing extra lore 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./kernel/relay.c — and the whole relay crew, gathered here like a group chat roll call:

• relay_mmap_prepare_buf(9)
• relay_alloc_buf(9)
• relay_create_buf(9)
• relay_destroy_channel(9)
• relay_destroy_buf(9)
• relay_remove_buf(9)
• relay_buf_empty(9)
• relay_buf_full(9)
• __relay_reset(9)
• relay_reset(9)
• relay_close_buf(9)
• relay_open(9)
• relay_switch_subbuf(9)
• relay_subbufs_consumed(9)
• relay_close(9)
• relay_flush(9)
• relay_stats(9)
• relay_file_open(9)
• relay_file_mmap_prepare(9)
• relay_file_poll(9)
• relay_file_release(9)
• relay_file_read_subbuf_avail(9)
• relay_file_read_start_pos(9)
• relay_file_read_end_pos(9)

xoxo, your kernel bestie 💖 source/version: ./kernel, dated October 2026. mwah 💋