FUNCTION::PRINTK(3stap)

💖 FUNCTION::PRINTK 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Logging Tapset — yes that's the manual name, it's giving "system logs but make it fashion" ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

function::printk — send a message to the kernel trace buffer, no cap 📨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

printk(level:long,msg:string)

that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• level — an integer for the severity level, and it goes from 0=KERN_EMERG all the way up to 7=KERN_DEBUG. so like, 0 is screaming-in-caps emergency energy 😱 and 7 is just lowkey chatting 🦋
• msg — the formatted message string. this is the actual thing you wanna say, bestie 💬

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so what this does is print a line of text to the kernel dmesg/console with whatever severity you handed it. and the way that it just adds an implicit end-of-line for you? iconic. you don't even have to think about it. 💅

⚠️ but here's the tea, and it's important tea: this function may not be safely called from all kernel probe contexts. so it's restricted to guru mode only. not regular mode. not "eh, close enough" mode. guru mode. periodt. 👑

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• tapset::logging(3stap)

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and that's the whole page, bestie — go forth and log responsibly 🧚💜

this was the SystemTap Tapset Reference, Ver, September 2026 edition 🌸 mwah, catch you in the next manpage 💖✨🎀