timer_base_is_idle(9)

💅 timer_base_is_idle(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment 🎀

ok so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for timer_base_is_idle ✨ it's a tiny one, but she's iconic in her own lowkey way.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

timer_base_is_idle — literally returns whether the timer base is set idle 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool timer_base_is_idle (void );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• void — no arguments, bestie. nothing. zero. the void is the vibe 💀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Returns the value of the local timer base's is_idle value. that's it, that's the whole function — she's short and she knows it 👑

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the whole friend group, fr fr:

• Kernel file ./kernel/time/timer.c
• struct timer_base(9)
• __round_jiffies_relative(9)
• round_jiffies(9)
• round_jiffies_relative(9)
• __round_jiffies_up_relative(9)
• round_jiffies_up(9)
• round_jiffies_up_relative(9)
• timer_init_key(9)
• mod_timer_pending(9)
• mod_timer(9)
• timer_reduce(9)
• add_timer(9)
• add_timer_local(9)
• add_timer_global(9)
• add_timer_on(9)
• __timer_delete(9)
• timer_delete(9)
• timer_shutdown(9)
• __try_to_del_timer_sync(9)
• timer_delete_sync_try(9)
• __timer_delete_sync(9)
• timer_delete_sync(9)
• timer_shutdown_sync(9)
• fetch_next_timer_interrupt_remote(9)
• timer_unlock_remote_bases(9)
• timer_lock_remote_bases(9)
• timer_expire_remote(9)
• get_next_timer_interrupt(9)
• timer_base_try_to_set_idle(9)
• timer_clear_idle(9)
• __run_timers(9)

ngl this list is giving "squad photo where everyone shows up" 😭 read them all, they're family 💖

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that's the page, bestie!! 🌈 this little gem lives over in ./kernel/time, and she was last touched October 2026 — so yeah, recent, relevant, main character energy 👑💅 slay 🍓