ring_buffer_subbuf_size_get(9)

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🦋 ring_buffer_subbuf_size_get — Kernel API Manual 🦋

okay bestie, welcome to the ring_buffer_subbuf_size_get(9) page, live from the Kernel API Manual itself 💅 this one's short and sweet and honestly kind of a serve.

✨ NAME ✨

ring_buffer_subbuf_size_get — literally just get the size of the sub buffer 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ring_buffer_subbuf_size_get (struct trace_buffer *buffer );

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

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • buffer — the buffer you wanna get the sub buffer size from 🫶 hand it over and it tells you the tea.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Returns the size of the sub buffer, in bytes ✨ that's it, that's the whole function. no cap, it really is that simple. it's giving "small but mighty" 💖

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Kernel file ./kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c — go read it, it's right there 👑

and then the whole friend group, fr fr:

kay that's the whole page bestie, ily, go read the source 🧚

shoutout to the source dir ./kernel/trace, the version is the Kernel API Manual, and this was dated October 2026 — see u in the next one, mwah 💋✨🎀

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