time_is_after_jiffies(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ time_is_after_jiffies(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💅 this is the page for time_is_after_jiffies, and honestly? it's a lil one-trick pony but she's iconic for it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

time_is_after_jiffies — returns true if a is after jiffies. that's it. that's the whole job. no cap 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

time_is_after_jiffies (a );

like yes, the spacing in there is a little feral, we don't question it, we just type it exactly like that 🙈

💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

  • a — the time you wanna compare against jiffies, and it's an unsigned long fyi. so like, a jiffies-ish number, not a struct, not a pointer, just a plain lil number 🍓

⭐ RETURN ⭐

it hands back true if time a is after jiffies, and otherwise it's false. that's the entire vibe check, in and out, done 💫

lowkey important: this is the kind of comparison where you do not just do a > jiffies with your bare hands, because wraparound exists and it will absolutely humble you 😭 the whole time_* family exists so you don't have to rawdog the maths. respect the inline, bestie 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

everything lives in the kernel file ./include/linux/jiffies.h, and if you're obsessed with time_* (and you should be) there's a whole squad:

like okayyy conversion functions, we see you 🔥 the 64 variants are right there for when you need the big girl numbers, and the _eq versions are for when "equal" counts as "after" (iykyk) 🌈

that's the page, bestie!! it came from ./include/linux and it's dated October 2026 — and yes, the footer says time_is_after_jiffies(9) one more time because the manpage said it twice and we are not skipping a single crumb 👑💖 mwah, go compare some jiffies safely 🧚✨

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