timer_unlock_remote_bases(9)

💅 timer_unlock_remote_bases(9) 💅

okay so bestie, this is timer_unlock_remote_bases(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it is exactly the kind of targeted little kernel moment that eats. no cap, it's giving “one job, done cleanly” energy. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

timer_unlock_remote_bases — unlock timer bases of cpu 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the whole signature is literally this, bestie:

void timer_unlock_remote_bases (unsigned int cpu );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• cpu — Remote CPU. that's the argument, and yes it's carrying the whole remote-CPU vibe by itself 🫶

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Unlocks the remote timer bases.

periodt. that's the description. it's not doing extra, it's not doing too much — it unlocks the remote timer bases and leaves. iconic behavior, honestly. 🦋

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

all the timer-adjacent lore and friends, coming through:

• 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_lock_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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xoxo, your timer bestie 💅 — this page came from the ./kernel/time source spot and is dated October 2026. mwah 💖