stack_depot_fetch(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so stack_depot_fetch is literally the function that fetches a stack trace from stack depot, and this whole page is from the Kernel API Manual. bestie, we are in kernel land now 💅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the exact signature, no edits, no cap:

unsigned int stack_depot_fetch (depot_stack_handle_t handle , unsigned
       long **entries );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• handle — the stack depot handle you got back from stack_depot_save. it's your little ticket into the depot, iykyk 🎟️
• entries — a pointer where the address of the stack trace gets stored. you hand over the spot, the address lands there 🫶

💅 RETURN 💅

the number of frames for the fetched stack. that's the count, periodt 🔥

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

kernel file ./include/linux/stackdepot.h — and the whole squad:

• stack_depot_save_flags(9)
• stack_depot_save(9)
• __stack_depot_get_stack_record(9)
• stack_depot_print(9)
• stack_depot_snprint(9)
• stack_depot_put(9)
• stack_depot_set_extra_bits(9)
• stack_depot_get_extra_bits(9)

this cutie comes from ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and stack_depot_fetch(9) is signing off 💖✨