timecounter_init(9)

✨ NAME ✨

timecounter_init — initialize a time counter. and hiiii bestie, this is the timecounter_init(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 💖 — you're gonna slay this.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void timecounter_init (struct timecounter *tc , struct cyclecounter *cc
       , u64 start_tstamp );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• tc — pointer to the time counter that's getting initialized/reset, no cap.
• cc — a cycle counter, ready to be used. iconic.
• start_tstamp — an arbitrary initial time stamp, periodt.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

After this call, the current cycle register (roughly) corresponds to the initial time stamp — yes, roughly, bestie, that's the tea. Every call to timecounter_read increments the time stamp counter by the number of elapsed nanoseconds. that's the whole plot and it ate 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./include/linux/timecounter.h
• struct cyclecounter(9)
• struct timecounter(9)
• cyclecounter_cyc2ns(9)
• timecounter_adjtime(9)
• timecounter_read(9)
• timecounter_cyc2time(9)

okay that's the page, bestie 🫶 — footer tea: source/version is ./include/linux, date is October 2026, and the page is timecounter_init(9). mwah 💖