is_swbp_insn(9)

okay so bestie, welcome to the is_swbp_insn(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 💅✨ this is literally the check-if-instruction-is-a-breakpoint-instruction page, and it’s giving tiny but main character energy. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

is_swbp_insn — check if instruction is breakpoint instruction. periodt 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool is_swbp_insn (uprobe_opcode_t *insn );

okay so that’s the whole signature, bestie — bool coming back, uprobe_opcode_t *insn going in. slay. 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• insn — instruction to be checked. The default implementation of is_swbp_insn returns true if insn is a breakpoint instruction. that’s the whole assignment, ngl 😌💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay bestie, here’s the friend group 👑:

• Kernel file ./kernel/events/uprobes.c
• is_trap_insn(9)
• set_swbp(9)
• set_orig_insn(9)
• uprobe_unregister_nosync(9)
• uprobe_register(9)
• uprobe_apply(9)
• uprobe_get_swbp_addr(9)

this is the part where you go read the uprobes lore if you want the full cinematic universe 🍓✨

made with love from source/version ./kernel/events, dated October 2026, for is_swbp_insn(9) — mwah 💋🌈