tracing_init_dentry(9)

✨ tracing_init_dentry(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for tracing_init_dentry(9) — yes that's the real title, yes we're doing this, and yes it's gonna slay 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tracing_init_dentry — initialize the top level trace array 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int tracing_init_dentry (void );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• void — literally no arguments, she takes nothing, she gives everything ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea, bestie: this function gets called when you're creating files or directories inside the tracing directory. That's her whole moment. 🎀

She gets called via fs_initcall by any of the boot up code, and she expects to return the dentry of the top level tracing directory. That's the vibe — boot time comes knocking, she hands over the dentry, everyone moves on. 🌈

ngl it's giving "small but load-bearing" — main character energy in like four lines of code 👑

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./kernel/trace/trace.c, plus the whole friend group:

• 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)
• trace_buffered_event_disable(9)
• 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)

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and that's the whole page, periodt 🌟 this lil icon came to you from ./kernel/trace, October 2026 edition — mwah, go read some source code, ily, bye 💜🧚🍓