trace_ksm_exit(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, this is trace_ksm_exit(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it is exactly what it sounds like: called after a new process has been removed from ksm. That's the whole vibe. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature is literally right here, no notes:

void trace_ksm_exit (void *mm );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• mm — address of the mm object of the process 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this one lets you trace the when a process has been removed from ksm. yes, the when — it's giving timestamp mystery, and we are obsessed with the drama of it all ✨

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file ./include/trace/events/ksm.h, plus the whole ksm trace bestie lineup:

• trace_ksm_start_scan(9)
• trace_ksm_stop_scan(9)
• trace_ksm_enter(9)
• trace_ksm_merge_one_page(9)
• trace_ksm_merge_with_ksm_page(9)
• trace_ksm_remove_ksm_page(9)
• trace_ksm_remove_rmap_item(9)
• trace_ksm_advisor(9)

and that's the page, bestie 🫶 this little icon lives in ./include/trace/events, dated October 2026, and it is trace_ksm_exit(9) all the way down — periodt 💖✨