account_group_system_time(9)

✨ account_group_system_time ✨

okay so real talk, this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and it's lowkey a tiny little bookkeeping icon — it just keeps the system-time counter for a whole thread group looking correct 💖 no cap, that's the whole job.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

account_group_system_time — maintain stime for a thread group.

like, literally just "keep the stime field fed and happy" 🍓

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void account_group_system_time (struct task_struct *tsk , u64 cputime );

that's it bestie, two args, no return value, void and unbothered 💅

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• tsk — pointer to a task_struct. you know, the task structure. the whole personality of the calling context lives in there 🫶
• cputime — the time value you're adding in. this is the amount by which we increment the stime field of the thread_group_cputime structure. basically the tip you're dropping into the jar 💸

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so here's the vibe: if thread group time is being maintained, this function gets the structure for the running CPU and updates the stime field right there. that's the tea ☕

so it's conditional at the top — no maintained thread group time, no update — and when it does fire, it's the per-running-CPU structure getting the love, not some random one. iykyk 🌈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• the kernel file ./include/linux/sched/cputime.h
• get_running_cputimer(9)
• account_group_user_time(9)
• account_group_exec_runtime(9)

go read those too, they're the friend group and they all slay together 💜

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💀 reminder bestie: this is kernel-internal bookkeeping, so it's all about who maintains what and which CPU's structure you're touching. keep the exact names exactly as written, no freestyling.

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and that's the whole page, periodt 🧚💖 brought to you from ./include/linux/sched, dated October 2026 — mwah, see u in the next manpage bestie 🎀⭐