drm_timeout_abs_to_jiffies(9)

💅 drm_timeout_abs_to_jiffies — a little kernel helper, brought to you by the Kernel API Manual ✨

Okay bestie, buckle up, because this one is short and sweet and lowkey iconic. The function is drm_timeout_abs_to_jiffies, and its whole personality is: calculate jiffies timeout from absolute value. That's it. That's the name. It literally tells you what it does, we love a self-aware king 👑

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🌸 NAME 🌸

drm_timeout_abs_to_jiffies — calculate jiffies timeout from absolute value 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

signed long drm_timeout_abs_to_jiffies (int64_t timeout_nsec );

Yep, that's the whole signature. One argument, one return, no drama 🦋

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• timeout_nsec — the timeout nsec component, in ns. And bestie, listen: pass 0 for poll 👀 that's the move. Zero means poll, no cap.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So what does it actually do? It calculates the timeout in jiffies from an absolute time in sec/nsec 🌈

That's the entire description, and honestly? It ate. Brief, clear, no filler. The way it takes an absolute time and hands you back jiffies. Main character conversion energy fr fr 🔥

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Like any good bestie, this function comes with a whole friend group. Go say hi 💜

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_syncobj.c Overview(9)
• drm_syncobj_find(9)
• drm_syncobj_add_point(9)
• drm_syncobj_replace_fence(9)
• drm_syncobj_assign_null_handle(9)
• drm_syncobj_find_fence(9)
• drm_syncobj_free(9)
• drm_syncobj_create(9)
• drm_syncobj_get_handle(9)
• drm_syncobj_get_fd(9)
• drm_syncobj_open(9)
• drm_syncobj_release(9)

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Heads up bestie: timeout_nsec is the nsec component of an absolute time — and 0 means poll. Don't forget the zero case, iykyk 🙈

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And that's the whole page, babes 💅💖 This little drop of kernel wisdom lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm, dated October 2026, straight from the Kernel API Manual — periodt. Go forth and convert your absolute times to jiffies, you absolute icon 🌟🎀