ring_buffer_max_event_size(9)

💖 ring_buffer_max_event_size(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ring_buffer_max_event_size(9) — manual name folded in near the top, exactly as requested ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ring_buffer_max_event_size — return the max data size of an event 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

unsigned long ring_buffer_max_event_size (struct trace_buffer *buffer );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• buffer — the ring buffer. that's the whole argument, bestie 🫶

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

so like, this function returns the maximum size an event can be. that's it, that's the tea ☕✨ no cap.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file: ./kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c — and here's the whole friend group, all present and accounted for 👑

• ring_buffer_event_length(9), ring_buffer_event_data(9), rb_page_capacity(9), rb_subbuf_capacity(9), rb_subbuf_max_data_size(9), rb_subbuf_start(9)
• ring_buffer_event_time_stamp(9), ring_buffer_nr_dirty_pages(9), ring_buffer_wake_waiters(9), ring_buffer_wait(9), ring_buffer_poll_wait(9), rb_check_pages(9)
• rb_validate_buffer(9), __ring_buffer_alloc(9), __ring_buffer_alloc_range(9), __ring_buffer_alloc_remote(9), ring_buffer_free(9), ring_buffer_resize(9)
• rb_update_event(9), ring_buffer_nest_start(9), ring_buffer_nest_end(9), ring_buffer_unlock_commit(9), ring_buffer_lock_reserve(9), ring_buffer_discard_commit(9)
• ring_buffer_write(9), ring_buffer_record_disable(9), ring_buffer_record_enable(9), ring_buffer_record_off(9), ring_buffer_record_on(9), ring_buffer_record_is_on(9)
• ring_buffer_record_is_set_on(9), ring_buffer_record_is_on_cpu(9), ring_buffer_record_disable_cpu(9), ring_buffer_record_enable_cpu(9), ring_buffer_oldest_event_ts(9), ring_buffer_bytes_cpu(9)
• ring_buffer_entries_cpu(9), ring_buffer_overrun_cpu(9), ring_buffer_commit_overrun_cpu(9), ring_buffer_dropped_events_cpu(9), ring_buffer_read_events_cpu(9), ring_buffer_entries(9)
• ring_buffer_overruns(9), ring_buffer_iter_reset(9), ring_buffer_iter_empty(9), ring_buffer_peek(9), ring_buffer_iter_peek(9), ring_buffer_consume(9)
• ring_buffer_read_start(9), ring_buffer_read_finish(9), ring_buffer_iter_advance(9), ring_buffer_size(9), ring_buffer_reset_cpu(9), ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus(9)
• ring_buffer_reset(9), ring_buffer_empty(9), ring_buffer_empty_cpu(9), ring_buffer_swap_cpu(9), ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(9), ring_buffer_free_read_page(9)
• ring_buffer_read_page(9), ring_buffer_read_page_data(9), ring_buffer_read_page_size(9), ring_buffer_subbuf_size_get(9), ring_buffer_subbuf_order_get(9), ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(9)

mwah 💋 this page is from ./kernel/trace and is dated October 2026 — catch you in the next one, bestie 🫶