register_tracer(9)

🌸 register_tracer(9) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to register_tracer(9) from the Kernel API Manual — we're doing ftrace tracer registration and we're gonna be so normal about it. 💅✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

register_tracer — register a tracer with the ftrace system. periodt. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the whole signature, untouched, exactly as written:

int register_tracer (struct tracer *type );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• type — the plugin for the tracer. that's the tracer plugin you're passing in, bestie. 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Register a new plugin tracer. that's the whole assignment: a new plugin tracer gets registered. it's giving “new plugin tracer, now registered” energy, no cap. 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole ftrace friend group, fr fr:

• Kernel file ./kernel/trace/trace.c
• trace_array_put(9)
• tracing_is_enabled(9)
• tracing_on(9)
• tracing_snapshot(9)
• tracing_alloc_snapshot(9)
• tracer_tracing_disable(9)
• tracer_tracing_enable(9)
• tracing_off(9)
• tracer_tracing_is_on(9)
• tracing_is_on(9)
• tracing_start(9)
• tracing_stop(9)
• trace_buffered_event_enable(9)
• trace_buffered_event_disable(9)
• trace_dump_stack(9)
• ignore_event(9)
• trace_adjust_address(9)
• tracing_update_buffers(9)
• trace_user_fault_destroy(9)
• trace_user_fault_init(9)
• trace_user_fault_get(9)
• trace_user_fault_put(9)
• trace_user_fault_read(9)
• err_pos(9)
• tracing_log_err(9)
• trace_array_get_by_name(9)
• tracing_init_dentry(9)

mwah 💋 this little manual page is from source ./kernel/trace, dated October 2026, and it's still register_tracer(9) — iconic, honestly. 🌟💖