schedule_timeout_killable(9)

💤 schedule_timeout_killable(9) 💤

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this is the page for schedule_timeout_killable, and yes it's as much of a mouthful as it looks 💅 don't worry, we're gonna get through it together.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

schedule_timeout_killable — sleep until timeout (killable)

like, literally just nap city, but make it interruptible-by-signal, yk? 😴

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

signed long schedule_timeout_killable (signed long timeout );

that's the whole vibe. one argument, one return, no cap 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• timeout — the timeout value, and it's in jiffies bestie, jiffies, not seconds, not millis, jiffies. write that down 📝

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so for the actual deets? See schedule_timeout for details. — that's it, that's the lore, go read the other page, iykyk 💀

but there IS one thing this one does on its own and it's iconic: Task state is set to TASK_KILLABLE before starting the timeout. 👑

fr fr that's the whole main character energy of this function — it's sleepytime but with the killable flag set. periodt.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

look at this little friend group omg 🥹 all of these live in the kernel file ./kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:

• schedule_timeout(9)
• schedule_timeout_interruptible(9)
• schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(9)
• schedule_timeout_idle(9)
• schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock(9)
• schedule_hrtimeout_range(9)
• schedule_hrtimeout(9)
• msleep(9)
• msleep_interruptible(9)
• usleep_range_state(9)

go give 'em a read, they're all slaying in their own way 💖

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reminder bestie: timeout is in jiffies — do NOT pass seconds and then act surprised, i'm begging 🙈

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and that's the page!! sourced straight from ./kernel/time, dated October 2026 — mwah, love u, go take a lil nap (killable, obviously) 🧚⭐💜