tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick(9)

🌸 tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick — the NAME era 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick 💅 and honestly? the name says it all: this one stops the idle tick, and it does it from the idle task. no cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick (void );

like, that's the whole vibe. void in, void out. 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• void — no arguments. zero. none. not a single one. it's giving "I need nothing from you, I'm booked and busy" 💀

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea 🍓: when the next event is more than a tick into the future, this function goes ahead and stops the idle tick.

that's it. that's the whole story. iconic behavior, honestly 👑

ngl this is literally the "know when to chill" function and I respect it so much 🙈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• the kernel file ./kernel/time/tick-sched.c — the source of truth, go read it iykyk
• tick_nohz_update_jiffies(9)
• tick_nohz_next_event(9)
• tick_nohz_idle_enter(9)
• tick_nohz_irq_exit(9)
• tick_nohz_idle_got_tick(9)
• tick_nohz_get_next_hrtimer(9)
• tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(9)
• tick_nohz_get_idle_calls_cpu(9)
• tick_nohz_idle_exit(9)
• tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(9)
• tick_setup_sched_timer(9)

fr fr that's the whole friend group, go say hi to all of them 🌈

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mwah 💋 this lil page lives in ./kernel/time, dated October 2026, and it was brought to you by tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick(9) — the main character of this manual page. slay, bye bestie 💜✨