__trace_puts(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 __trace_puts(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — yes, that section, the kernel-functions one, we're fancy now 💅. This page is about __trace_puts, and honestly? She's a little icon. Let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

__trace_puts — write a constant string into the trace buffer.

That's it. That's her job. She takes your string and she puts it in the trace buffer. Simple, effective, iconic. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int __trace_puts (unsigned long ip , const char *str );

like, look at that signature. she returns an int, she takes two things, and she's not sorry about it. no cap. ✨

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • ip — the address of the caller 🫶 (yes, literally the address of whoever called her — she likes to know who's talking, iykyk)
  • str — the constant string to write 💜 (constant, bestie — that's the whole vibe)

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

if you're obsessed with her (same), go meet her friends — they all live in the kernel file ./kernel/trace/trace_printk.c:

one big happy trace-printing family. the way that they all just print into trace buffers together?? main character energy fr fr 🌈

lowkey a reminder that ip is the address of the caller and str is a constant string — that's what it says, so that's what I'm telling you. no invented lore here, bestie. 🙈

and that's the whole page, bestie — nothing else to unpack. this one came out of the ./kernel/trace corner of the tree, from the Kernel API Manual, dated October 2026 ⭐. slay, go trace something. 💅🔥🎀

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