ASSERT_GE(9)

🌸 ASSERT_GE(9) — the "bestie, is it at LEAST this big?" check 💅

okay so real talk, this page lives in the Kernel API Manual (that's the manual name, iykyk), and the star of the show is ASSERT_GE. It's the assert that makes sure your number is not smaller than the bar you set. Genuinely iconic behaviour tbh 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

ASSERT_GE — the assert that goes "expected >= measured, or we're throwing hands" 💀

(The original NAME section is literally blank after the dash, so like… that's the whole vibe. No cap.)

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ASSERT_GE (expected , seen );

that's it, that's the whole call. two args, one job, zero drama ✨

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• expected — the expected value 💖 the bar, the standard, the "it should be at least this" number you're holding everything to.
• seen — the measured value 🔥 the actual number that showed up to the function. vibe check time.

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the tea, bestie:

ASSERT_GE(expected, measured): expected >= measured

ASSERT_GE checks that expected is greater than or equal to measured. that's the whole thing. it's giving "greater-than-or-equal-to, but make it a kernel assert" ⭐

lowkey important: this page refers to the second thing as measured in the DESCRIPTION even though the ARGUMENTS section calls it seen. that's just how the page is written — both show up, so don't come for me 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this list is long and honestly kinda iconic, so buckle up bestie 🎀

• the Kernel file ./tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h example(9) 💜
• TH_LOG(9)
• SKIP(9)
• TEST(9)
• TEST_SIGNAL(9)
• FIXTURE_DATA(9)
• FIXTURE(9)
• FIXTURE_SETUP(9)
• FIXTURE_TEARDOWN(9)
• FIXTURE_TEARDOWN_PARENT(9)
• FIXTURE_VARIANT(9)
• FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(9)
• TEST_F(9)
• TEST_HARNESS_MAIN(9)
• operators(9)
• ASSERT_EQ(9)
• ASSERT_NE(9)
• ASSERT_LT(9)
• ASSERT_LE(9)
• ASSERT_GT(9)
• ASSERT_NULL(9)
• ASSERT_TRUE(9)
• ASSERT_FALSE(9)
• ASSERT_STREQ(9)
• ASSERT_STRNE(9)
• EXPECT_EQ(9)
• EXPECT_NE(9)
• EXPECT_LT(9)
• EXPECT_LE(9)
• EXPECT_GT(9)
• EXPECT_GE(9)
• EXPECT_NULL(9)
• EXPECT_TRUE(9)
• EXPECT_FALSE(9)
• EXPECT_STREQ(9)
• EXPECT_STRNE(9)
• XFAIL_ADD(9)

like I said. a whole squad. the ASSERT_* girlies, the EXPECT_* girlies, the fixture family, all of them. main character energy across the board 💅

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and that's the page, bestie!! 🧚 source lives over in ./tools/testing/selftests, and this whole thing was dated October 2026 — so yeah, timestamped and slaying. go forth and assert that your values are at least as big as they should be 💖✨🍓