legacy_timer_tick(9)

legacy_timer_tick(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ today's main character is legacy_timer_tick, and it is literally here to advance the timekeeping infrastructure. 🕰️👑

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✨ NAME ✨

legacy_timer_tick — advances the timekeeping infrastructure 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void legacy_timer_tick (unsigned long ticks );

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• ticks — number of ticks that have elapsed since the last call. 🎀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This one is used by platforms that have not been converted to generic clockevents. no cap, it's the legacy lane 🦋

If ticks is zero, the CPU is not handling timekeeping, so only perform process accounting and profiling. like, that's the whole vibe check 😌

⚠️ Must be called with interrupts disabled. fr fr, do not skip this 💀

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• Kernel file ./kernel/time/tick-legacy.c 🧚

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xoxo, your kernel bestie 💖 — source/version: ./kernel/time, date: October 2026 ✨💅