cpuidle_inst...idle_handler(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this is cpuidle_install_idle_handler — it installs the cpuidle idle loop handler 🎀. that's the whole vibe. it's a kernel API manual page, and yes we're reading it for fun, don't judge 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void cpuidle_install_idle_handler (void );

literally takes nothing, returns nothing, just does the thing ✨

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• void — no arguments. none. zero. the void is voiding 🙈 no parameters to pass, no config to stress about, she's low maintenance fr fr 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay so there's a whole friend group here, and honestly they're all iconic in their own way 👑

the kernel file is ./drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c — that's where the main character lives 🫶 and here's the entire squad:

• cpuidle_play_dead(9)
• cpuidle_use_deepest_state(9)
• cpuidle_find_deepest_state(9)
• cpuidle_enter_s2idle(9)
• cpuidle_enter_state(9)
• cpuidle_select(9)
• cpuidle_enter(9)
• cpuidle_reflect(9)
• cpuidle_poll_time(9)
• cpuidle_uninstall_idle_handler(9)
• cpuidle_pause_and_lock(9)
• cpuidle_resume_and_unlock(9)
• cpuidle_enable_device(9)
• cpuidle_disable_device(9)
• __cpuidle_register_device(9)
• cpuidle_register_device(9)
• cpuidle_unregister_device(9)
• cpuidle_unregister(9)
• cpuidle_register(9)
• cpuidle_init(9)

like, twenty whole besties. go say hi 💅✨

and that's the page, bestie 🎀 source lives in ./drivers/cpuidle, dated October 2026, from the Kernel API Manual — slay, go install that idle handler, periodt 💜🦋