blk_add_timer(9)

💖 blk_add_timer(9) 💖 Kernel API Manual

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this page is literally about starting a timeout timer for a single request. no cap, that’s the whole vibe. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

blk_add_timer — Start timeout timer for a single request. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void blk_add_timer (struct request *req );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• req — the request that is about to start running. this is the main character of the function, periodt. 👑

🔥 NOTES 🔥

here’s the tea, bestie:

• Each request has its own timer.
• As it is added to the queue, we set up the timer.
• When the request completes, we cancel the timer.

so it’s giving “one request, one timer, and we clean it up when the request is done.” 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./block/blk-timeout.c
• blk_abort_request(9)

go peek at those if you wanna keep the lore going. 🦋

that’s the whole page, bestie — source is ./block, date says October 2026, and we’re out here repping blk_add_timer(9). 💖✨