tracing_off(9)

✨ tracing_off(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's all about tracing_off — yes bestie, the lowercase one, the turn it off one 💅 she's iconic, she's tiny, she's two words and a semicolon.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tracing_off — turn off tracing buffers. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void tracing_off (void );

look at her. no params, no drama, no notes. just a void going in and a void coming out. main character energy fr fr 👑

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💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

• void — no arguments. literally none. zero. nada. don't @ me with a parameter, there isn't one 🙈

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so here's the tea ☕ — tracing_off stops the tracing buffers from recording data. like, the ring buffers just stop taking notes. pens down. notebooks closed. 📓

but — and this is the important part, bestie, don't skip it — it does not disable any overhead the tracers themselves may be causing. nope. the tracers are still out there doing their little routines, still costing you cycles, still living their lives. this function purely makes all recording to the ring buffers fail. that's the whole job. it's giving "bouncer at the door" not "shutting down the club" 💀

so if you were hoping this would make everything cheap and free and fast — nope! it just means nothing lands in the buffers anymore. the overhead stays. no cap. ✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

like, go read these too, iykyk 🫶 — and yes we're listing every single one, i'm not doing you dirty like that:

• Kernel file ./kernel/trace/trace.c 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)
• 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)
• tracing_init_dentry(9)

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💖 this little number lives in ./kernel/trace and it's dated October 2026 — yes, future girl summer 🧚⭐ stay slay, go turn something off, mwah 🎀💜