trace_user_exit(9)

💖 trace_user_exit(9) 💖

okay bestie, this lil page lives in the Kernel API Manual, and it’s giving “short but essential trace event energy” — no cap ✨

✨ NAME ✨

trace_user_exit — called when userspace enters the kernel.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void trace_user_exit (int dummy );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dummy — a dummy arg to make the trace event macro happy 💅 that’s literally its whole job, bestie.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This event occurs when userspace enters the kernel through an exception or a syscall. periodt. that’s the whole situation: userspace comes into the kernel via an exception or a syscall, and this event happens. 🦋

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• Kernel file ./include/trace/events/context_tracking.h
• trace_user_enter(9)

lowkey reminder: exception or syscall — that’s when it fires, iykyk 💖

cute sign-off time: the source/version line is ./include/trace/events, the date is October 2026, and the page is trace_user_exit(9) — bye bestie, slay your tracing 🌈✨