trace-cmd-stack - Man Page

read, enable or disable Ftrace Linux kernel stack tracing​.

Synopsis

trace-cmd stack

Description

The trace-cmd(1) stack enables the Ftrace stack tracer within the kernel​. The stack tracer enables the function tracer and at each function call within the kernel, the stack is checked​. When a new maximum usage stack is discovered, it is recorded​.

When no option is used, the current stack is displayed​.

To enable the stack tracer, use the option --start, and to disable the stack tracer, use the option --stop​. The output will be the maximum stack found since the start was enabled​.

Use --reset to reset the stack counter to zero​.

User --verbose[=level] to set the log level​. Supported log levels are "none", "critical", "error", "warning", "info", "debug", "all" or their identifiers "0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6"​. Setting the log level to specific value enables all logs from that and all previous levels​. The level will default to "info" if one is not specified​.

See Also

trace-cmd(1), trace-cmd-record(1), trace-cmd-report(1), trace-cmd-start(1), trace-cmd-extract(1), trace-cmd-reset(1), trace-cmd-split(1), trace-cmd-list(1), trace-cmd-listen(1)

Author

Written by Steven Rostedt, <rostedt@goodmis​.org​[1]>

Resources

https://git​.kernel​.org/pub/scm/utils/trace-cmd/trace-cmd​.git/

Copying

Copyright (C) 2010 Red Hat, Inc​. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL)​.

Notes

1.

rostedt@goodmis.org
mailto:rostedt@goodmis.org

Referenced By

trace-cmd(1).

07/28/2026 libtracefs Manual