debug_register_view(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this is debug_register_view — a kernel API manual page, and honestly? it's giving "small function, big responsibilities" 💅

what it does: registers a new debug view and creates a debugfs dir entry 🎀

like literally, you hand it a view, it makes it official and gives it a lil home in debugfs. main character energy fr fr.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int debug_register_view (debug_info_t *id , struct debug_view *view );

that's the whole vibe. two args, one int coming back at you. no cap. ✨

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• id — the handle for the debug log 🫶 like, your ticket to the debug log party. you need this, it's how the function knows which log you're talking about.
• view — pointer to the debug_view struct 👑 this is your actual view, the thing you're registering. the star of the show, the moment, the icon.

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

• 0 — ok ✅ slay, it worked, we love a success.
• < 0 — Error 💀 something went wrong, bestie. negative means bad vibes.

ngl, 0 is the good one. anything less than 0 means the function is not having a good time and neither are you 😭

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Kernel file ./arch/s390/kernel/debug.c, plus the whole friend group — these functions are all in the same gang, iykyk:

• debug_next_entry(9)
• debug_to_act_entry(9)
• debug_prev_entry(9)
• debug_move_entry(9)
• debug_dump(9)
• debug_register_mode(9)
• debug_register(9)
• debug_register_static(9)
• debug_unregister(9)
• debug_set_level(9)
• debug_stop_all(9)
• debug_set_critical(9)
• debug_unregister_view(9)

go read those too if you wanna be a debug girly who actually knows things 💜

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🌸 and that's the page! brought to you from ./arch/s390/kernel, dated October 2026, filed under debug_register_view(9) — mwah, go register some views, bestie 💅🎀💖