alarm_init(9)

💅 alarm_init(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this is the alarm_init(9) page, and it's literally the setup moment for an alarm struct. short, sweet, iconic. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

alarm_init — initialize an alarm structure 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void alarm_init (struct alarm *alarm , enum alarmtimer_type type , void
       (*function)(struct alarm *, ktime_t) );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• alarm — ptr to the alarm to be initialized 💖 like, the struct you're setting up, bestie.
• type — the type of the alarm, aka its whole category vibe 🦋.
• function — the callback that is run when the alarm fires 🔥 yes, that's the main-character callback.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay so the kernel file is ./kernel/time/alarmtimer.c, and these are all the linked manual pages — the whole squad, fr fr:

• struct alarm_base(9)
• alarmtimer_get_rtcdev(9)
• alarmtimer_enqueue(9)
• alarmtimer_dequeue(9)
• alarmtimer_fired(9)
• alarmtimer_suspend(9)
• alarm_start_timer(9)
• alarm_try_to_cancel(9)
• alarm_cancel(9)
• clock2alarm(9)
• alarm_handle_timer(9)
• alarm_timer_rearm(9)
• alarm_timer_forward(9)
• alarm_timer_remaining(9)
• alarm_timer_try_to_cancel(9)
• alarm_timer_wait_running(9)
• alarm_timer_arm(9)
• alarm_clock_getres(9)
• alarm_clock_get_timespec(9)
• alarm_clock_get_ktime(9)
• alarm_timer_create(9)
• alarmtimer_nsleep_wakeup(9)
• alarmtimer_do_nsleep(9)
• alarm_timer_nsleep_restart(9)
• alarm_timer_nsleep(9)
• alarmtimer_init(9)

mwah 💋 — source/version slot: ./kernel/time, date: October 2026, and this was your alarm_init(9) girlie signing off 🎀✨