register_tr...ule_notifier(9)

💅 register_tr...ule_notifier(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual page, bestie 🎀

okay so picture this: it's a (9) manpage, it lives in the Kernel API Manual, and the title got truncated by the terminal gremlins into register_tr...ule_notifier(9). yes the ellipsis is canon, we respect it 🫶 the full name is right there in NAME, keep reading.

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✨ NAME ✨

register_tracepoint_module_notifier — registers a tracepoint coming/going notifier 💫 like it literally just signs your notifier block up to get pinged whenever a module shows up or dips out.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int register_tracepoint_module_notifier (struct notifier_block *nb );

that's the whole vibe. one arg, returns an int. slay.

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• nb — the notifier block. that's it, that's the argument. your notifier block. the block of notifier. 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the notifiers you register with this function get called on module coming/going — like, module arrives, module leaves, notifications go brrr 🔥 — and the whole time that happens, it's all happening with the tracepoint_module_list_mutex held. lock held, bestie. do not forget the lock is held.

and the notifier block callback? it should expect a "struct tp_module" data pointer. that's the data it gets handed. no surprises, no cap, just a struct tp_module pointer coming your way 🎀

okay tiny heads-up: since the mutex is held while your callback runs, please don't do anything cursed in there 🙈 the page doesn't tell me more than that, so I'm not gonna invent drama — but like, the lock is held. noted. memorised. manifesting good behaviour.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./kernel/tracepoint.c
• tracepoint_probe_register_prio_may_exist(9)
• tracepoint_probe_register_prio(9)
• tracepoint_probe_register(9)
• tracepoint_probe_unregister(9)
• unregister_tracepoint_module_notifier(9)
• for_each_tracepoint_in_module(9)
• for_each_module_tracepoint(9)
• for_each_kernel_tracepoint(9)

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and that's the page!! 🌈 sign-off time: this little icon comes to you from the ./kernel directory, dated October 2026, and it answers to the name register_tr...ule_notifier(9) — yes, same truncated name, she's consistent 👑 🦋 mwah, go read your notifier blocks, ily 💜