trace_buffer...vent_disable(9)

💖 trace_buffer...vent_disable(9) — aka the Kernel API Manual glow-up 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's a lil function called trace_buffered_event_disable, and honestly? it's giving "quiet quitting but for buffers" 💅 let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

trace_buffered_event_disable — disable buffering events 🫶

like, that's the whole vibe. it turns the buffering of events off.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void trace_buffered_event_disable (void );

no returns, no drama, no stray values — she's void through and through 👑

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• void — no arguments 💀 fr fr, nothing. empty hands. she takes nothing from you. iconique.

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

okay so here's the tea ☕ — when a filter gets removed, it's faster to not use the buffered events and instead commit directly into the ring buffer. speed, slay, periodt 💨

so this function frees up the temp buffers once there are no more users — nobody's holding onto them, so they can go 🧚

and the important bit, don't skip this: this requires special synchronization with current events 😭 like, you can't just yolo it. there's real synchronization going on with the events happening right now. respect the sync, bestie 🙈

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

so many friends, omg. the kernel file is ./kernel/trace/trace.c and here's the whole squad:

• trace_array_put(9)
• tracing_is_enabled(9)
• tracing_on(9)
• tracing_snapshot(9)
• tracing_alloc_snapshot(9)
• tracer_tracing_disable(9)
• tracer_tracing_enable(9)
• tracing_off(9)
• tracer_tracing_is_on(9)
• tracing_is_on(9)
• register_tracer(9)
• tracing_start(9)
• tracing_stop(9)
• trace_buffered_event_enable(9) — the sister function, the enable to this disable 💜
• trace_dump_stack(9)
• ignore_event(9)
• trace_adjust_address(9)
• tracing_update_buffers(9)
• trace_user_fault_destroy(9)
• trace_user_fault_init(9)
• trace_user_fault_get(9)
• trace_user_fault_put(9)
• trace_user_fault_read(9)
• err_pos(9)
• tracing_log_err(9)
• trace_array_get_by_name(9)
• tracing_init_dentry(9)

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lowkey a whole friend group in ./kernel/trace — go say hi 👋

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okay that's the page!! 🎀 this lil number lives in ./kernel/trace and the version stamp says October 2026 — so mark your calendars bestie, she's timeless 🌈✨ bye, ily, read your manpages 💖