idle_inject_start(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so bestie, this is idle_inject_start(9) from the Kernel API Manual — a little powercap function that gets your idle injection party started 💅✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

idle_inject_start — start idle injections 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int idle_inject_start (struct idle_inject_device *ii_dev );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • ii_dev — the idle injection control device structure. literally the device struct this function is working with 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

The function starts idle injection by first waking up all of the idle injection kthreads associated with ii_dev to let them inject CPU idle time. It sets up a timer to start the next idle injection period ⏰✨

🔥 RETURN 🔥

  • -EINVAL — if the CPU idle or CPU run time is not set 😭
  • 0 — on success, slay 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file: ./drivers/powercap/idle_inject.c — yes bestie, that's where the source lives 📁

💜 and that's the whole vibe! brought to you by the page source/version ./drivers/powercap, dated October 2026, and of course idle_inject_start(9) — mwah 💋✨ periodt 🫶

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