timer_lock_remote_bases(9)

💅 timer_lock_remote_bases(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment

okay so bestie, welcome to the kernel API manual, timer edition ✨ this one is short and sweet and honestly kind of a baddie in its simplicity.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

timer_lock_remote_bases — locks the timer bases of a cpu, no cap 🔒

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void timer_lock_remote_bases (unsigned int cpu );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• cpu — the Remote CPU. that's it. that's the whole argument. she takes one (1) cpu and she locks her bases 💅

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

Locks the remote timer bases. periodt. 💖

like, that's genuinely the whole description — she's a one-line icon, she doesn't need a whole paragraph of lore. you hand her a cpu, she locks the remote timer bases, everybody goes home. main character energy, minimal dialogue 🔥

ngl this is a "you already know what it does from the name" kind of function, so if you're here looking for caveats or hidden behaviour… there aren't any listed. don't invent them 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, iykyk 🫶 — plus the kernel file where she lives:

• 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_base_is_idle(9)
• timer_expire_remote(9)
• get_next_timer_interrupt(9)
• timer_base_try_to_set_idle(9)
• timer_clear_idle(9)
• __run_timers(9)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚💜 she lives in ./kernel/time, this is the October 2026 edition, and she ate. go lock some remote bases, you got this 🍓👑