kvm_mips_count_disable(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 kvm_mips_count_disable(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for kvm_mips_count_disable, and honestly? it's a little baddie of a function. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

kvm_mips_count_disable — literally just Disable count. that's the whole vibe. periodt. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ktime_t kvm_mips_count_disable (struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu );

like, that's the signature, copy it exactly, no cap. ✨

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • vcpu — the Virtual CPU. that's it, that's the whole argument. she just wants her vcpu 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so what she does: she disables the CP0_Count timer 🔥.

and here's the tea on timing — a timer interrupt that lands on or before the final stop time will be handled, but anything after it? nope, not happening, she's off the clock 💀.

also, lowkey important: this function assumes CP0_Count was previously enabled but that now either Guest.CP0_Cause.DC or count_ctl.DC has been set (i.e. count disabled). so like, know that going in, bestie 🙈.

⭐ RETURN ⭐

she returns the time that the timer was stopped 🕐. iconic behavior honestly.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the Kernel file is ./arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c — and here's the whole friend group, all of them, don't skip a single one 💜:

ngl, if you're messing with the count timer, read the whole squad above before you ship anything 🧚

and that's the page!! mwah 💋 — this gem lives in the kernel source tree at ./arch/mips/kvm, dated October 2026, and it's kvm_mips_count_disable(9) all day every day. slay, go stop some timers responsibly 🌈💖

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