tick_init_highres(9)

💅 tick_init_highres(9) — switch to high resolution mode

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie, and today's main character is tick_init_highres(9) — it's giving “flip the tick device into high resolution mode” energy ✨

📛 NAME

tick_init_highres — switch to high resolution mode 🎀

🧾 SYNOPSIS

int tick_init_highres (void );

🫶 ARGUMENTS

• void — no arguments, literally none, not even a little one 🙈

🌸 DESCRIPTION

This gets called with interrupts disabled — that's the situation, periodt 💅

🔥 RETURN

• 0 — success, slay, it worked 💖
• -EINVAL — if the tick device cannot switch to oneshot/high-resolution mode 😭

👀 SEE ALSO

• Kernel file ./kernel/time/tick-oneshot.c
• tick_program_event(9)
• tick_resume_oneshot(9)
• tick_setup_oneshot(9)
• tick_switch_to_oneshot(9)
• tick_oneshot_mode_active(9)

cute sign-off: this page comes from the source/version-date situation ./kernel/time, October 2026, and it's filed under tick_init_highres(9) 🦋 byeee 🫶