tracing_start(9)

💅 tracing_start(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — this is the page for tracing_start, and it's honestly the shortest lil glow-up ever. no cap, it's giving "one job and it does it." 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void tracing_start (void );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• void — no arguments. that's it. nothing to pass, nothing to configure. she takes zero notes and zero params 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea, bestie 🍓: if tracing is enabled but was stopped by tracing_stop, this will start the tracer back up.

that's literally it. it's the "un-pause" button 🔥 like when you accidentally hit pause on your playlist and then remember you have a whole life to live — tracing_start hits play again on the tracer. periodt.

lowkey the important bit: it only does its thing if tracing is enabled and it was previously stopped by tracing_stop. don't come for her with other expectations, she's not that girl 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

like, go read these next, they're all in the same friend group and they ate 💖:

• 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)
• tracing_off(9)
• tracer_tracing_is_on(9)
• tracing_is_on(9)
• register_tracer(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)

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 go forth and trace responsibly. mwah 💋

this lil masterpiece lives in ./kernel/trace, straight from the Kernel API Manual, dated October 2026 — iconic behavior honestly ⭐