jiffies_to_clock_t(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for jiffies_to_clock_t — yes, the manual name is folded in right here because we're cute like that. This function is literally here to Convert jiffies to clock_t. That's the whole serve. ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the signature is giving one-line main character energy:

clock_t jiffies_to_clock_t (unsigned long x );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• x — the jiffies value, bestie. that's the input. 🫶

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

you get jiffies converted to clock_t (CLOCKS_PER_SEC) — that's the return, no cap. 💅

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the kernel file is ./kernel/time/time.c — iconic source material, fr fr.

and the whole function friend group, in original order, is:

• jiffies_to_msecs(9)
• jiffies_to_usecs(9)
• mktime64(9)
• set_normalized_timespec64(9)
• ns_to_timespec64(9)
• __msecs_to_jiffies(9)
• __usecs_to_jiffies(9)
• timespec64_to_jiffies(9)
• jiffies_to_timespec64(9)
• clock_t_to_jiffies(9)
• jiffies_64_to_clock_t(9)
• nsec_to_clock_t(9)
• jiffies64_to_nsecs(9)
• jiffies64_to_msecs(9)
• nsecs_to_jiffies64(9)
• nsecs_to_jiffies(9)
• timespec64_add_safe(9)
• get_timespec64(9)
• put_timespec64(9)
• get_old_timespec32(9)
• put_old_timespec32(9)
• get_itimerspec64(9)
• put_itimerspec64(9)
• get_old_itimerspec32(9)
• put_old_itimerspec32(9)

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source/version: ./kernel/time · date: October 2026 · page: jiffies_to_clock_t(9) — byeeeee bestie, go convert those jiffies 💅✨🫶