ring_buffer_iter_advance(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ring_buffer_iter_advance(9) — she's short, she's sweet, she advances iterators, and she's about to make your trace-buffer situation make sense 💅✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

ring_buffer_iter_advance — advance the iterator to the next location 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ring_buffer_iter_advance (struct ring_buffer_iter *iter );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • iter — the ring buffer iterator, aka the little cursor cutie you're moving around 🎯

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Move the iterator's location so that the next read will be the iterator's next location. That's it, that's the slay: advance the iterator to the next location ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c is the home base for this whole situation, and here's every reference bestie from the SEE ALSO squad — no cap, all of them:

mwah 💋 this page is from the source/version path ./kernel/trace, dated October 2026, and it's filed under ring_buffer_iter_advance(9) — bye bestie, go advance something responsibly 🫶🌈

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