alarm_timer_create(9)

💅 alarm_timer_create(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for alarm_timer_create — yes it's a section 9 (kernel API) page, yes it's short, and yes it still slaps. let's get into it ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

alarm_timer_create — the posix timer_create interface, that's the whole vibe 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int alarm_timer_create (struct k_itimer *new_timer );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• new_timer — the k_itimer pointer you're gonna manage, like it's your lil project 💖

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so literally what this does: it initializes the k_itimer structure. that's it. that's the function. it takes your new_timer and gets it all set up and ready to exist in the world. no cap, it's giving "setup era" and honestly we love a function that knows exactly what it is 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the friend group!! the whole squad!! all of these are in the kernel file ./kernel/time/alarmtimer.c, go say hi 💅

• struct alarm_base(9)
• alarmtimer_get_rtcdev(9)
• alarmtimer_enqueue(9)
• alarmtimer_dequeue(9)
• alarmtimer_fired(9)
• alarmtimer_suspend(9)
• alarm_init(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)
• alarmtimer_nsleep_wakeup(9)
• alarmtimer_do_nsleep(9)
• alarm_timer_nsleep_restart(9)
• alarm_timer_nsleep(9)
• alarmtimer_init(9)

okay that's the whole page, short and iconic, just like we like it 🌈 mwah, go initialize something 🧚

sign-off time: this lil page lives in ./kernel/time and it's dated October 2026 — yes, the source is ./kernel/time, the version/date stamp is October 2026, and it's brought to you by the section alarm_timer_create(9). periodt 💅💖