ring_buffer_event_data(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ring_buffer_event_data — straight outta the Kernel API Manual ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ring_buffer_event_data. it's short, it's sweet, it's lowkey iconic — one function, one job, no cap. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

ring_buffer_event_data — return the data of the event 💖

like, that's literally it. that's the whole gig. the function hands you back the data that lives inside an event. slay.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void * ring_buffer_event_data (struct ring_buffer_event *event );

look at that signature. void * return, one pointer arg. clean, minimal, main character energy 👑

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • event — the event to get the data from. that's the one you're pulling data out of, bestie. hand it over and it gives you the data back 🦋

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group, fr fr. it lives in the kernel file ./kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c, and here's everybody else in the gc:

ngl this one's a tiny page but the friend group is huge. read them all, iykyk 💀

that's the whole thing, bestie — no notes, periodt 💅 this one came from ./kernel/trace and it's dated October 2026, so like… go read your kernel source, it ate 🌈⭐

made with love, ring_buffer_event_data(9), signing off 🎀💜

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