should_continue_tracing(9)

✨ should_continue_tracing(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this one lives in section 9 of the kernel man pages and it's genuinely such a little icon. let me put you on 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

should_continue_tracing — the vibe check that tells you whether tracing should keep going after a threshold hits 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int should_continue_tracing (const struct common_params *params );

like, that's literally the whole signature. copy it exactly, no cap, don't be out here renaming things 🙈

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• params — a pointer to the common parameters structure. that's it. that's the whole argument list. one param, main character energy ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea 🍵 — this function returns true if the continue action was configured. and when we say "configured," we mean you passed --on-threshold continue, okay? write that down. that exact flag. --on-threshold continue.

what that means in practice: it's signalling that tracing should be restarted after handling the threshold event 🔥 so like, the threshold goes off, you deal with it, and then this lil function is the one going "yes queen, we go again."

ngl it's a small function but it's doing its job beautifully. obsessed 🫶

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

• 1 if tracing should continue
• 0 otherwise

that's the whole return situation. binary. clean. iconic. 1 = keep going, 0 = we're done here 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./tools/tracing/rtla/src/common.h — go look at the source bestie, it's right there 🌈

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and that's the page!! you ate that fr fr 🍓

sign-off time: this lil masterpiece lives in ./tools/tracing/rtla/src, and it's stamped October 2026 — so yeah, it's giving future-proof, it's giving timeless, it's giving 9-section royalty 💜🎀🦋

bye bestie, go trace something responsibly ✌️✨