kvm_mips_count_time(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ kvm_mips_count_time(9) ✨

okay so this is from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and bestie it's a little one but it's lowkey important 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

kvm_mips_count_time — get effective current time, no cap ⏰

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ktime_t kvm_mips_count_time (struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • vcpu — the virtual CPU. that's it, that's the whole argument 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the way this works: it gets you the effective monotonic ktime. and honestly? most of the time it's literally just a straightforward ktime_get. like, nothing dramatic, nothing extra, just vibing 🌈

but — and this is the part you gotta clock — when the master disable bit is set in count_ctl, it is not a plain ktime_get anymore. in that case it's count_resume, i.e. the time that the count was disabled. so it's giving "rewind to the moment we paused" energy 😭 the count was frozen, and this hands you back that exact timestamp. iconic behaviour, fr fr.

⭐ RETURN ⭐

effective monotonic ktime for CP0_Count 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

kernel file ./arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c — shoutout to the source material 💜

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