trace_dump_stack(9)

✨ NAME ✨

trace_dump_stack — the way to record a stack back trace in the trace buffer, no cap 💅

So basically the manual you're looking at is trace_dump_stack(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and bestie, it's a tiny one — but every bit of it matters, so let's go 🫶

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

void trace_dump_stack (int skip );

That's the whole call, that's the whole vibe ✨

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• skip — the number of functions to skip. Like, the helper handlers get skipped over, okay? It's giving "move, I'm not in the photo" 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./kernel/trace/trace.c — and also, hi, here's the whole friend group of related calls, lowkey iconic 💖

• 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_start(9)
• tracing_stop(9)
• trace_buffered_event_enable(9)
• trace_buffered_event_disable(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)

Go read them, fr fr — this one page is like two lines of lore and then a whole contact list of tracing functions 👑

That's it, that's the page, mwah 💋 — this one dropped from ./kernel/trace in October 2026, and yeah, that's the whole sign-off bestie, go trace something pretty 🦋🌸