alarm_timer_try_to_cancel(9)

✨ alarm_timer_try_to_cancel(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and bestie, it's a whole little vibe. it's short, it's sweet, and it's giving "one function, one job, zero drama." 🎀

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💖 NAME 💖

alarm_timer_try_to_cancel — Posix timer callback to cancel a timer

like, that's literally it. that's the whole assignment. a posix timer callback whose entire personality is "imma try to cancel this timer." ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int alarm_timer_try_to_cancel (struct k_itimer *timr );

so it returns an int, it's called alarm_timer_try_to_cancel, and it takes exactly one (1) argument. no cap. one. 🫶

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• timr — pointer to the posixtimer data struct. yes bestie, it's a pointer, and yes, it goes straight into the posixtimer data struct. that's the whole thing. 💅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay this is the part where the page goes full main-character-ensemble, because there are a LOT of friends in this cinematic universe. all of these are kernel files/functions, and every single one is here, exactly as written:

• Kernel file ./kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
• 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_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)

like, the whole group chat showed up. 🔥

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so yeah — that's the page. that's the lore. it lives in ./kernel/time, it's dated October 2026, and it answers to the name alarm_timer_try_to_cancel(9). mwah. 💋✨