<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>function::printk</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.69.1"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="SystemTap Tapset Reference Manual"><link rel="up" href="ch21.html" title="Chapter 21. Logging Tapset"><link rel="prev" href="re407.html" title="function::log"><link rel="next" href="re409.html" title="function::warn"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span>function::printk</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re407.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 21. Logging Tapset</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re409.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="API-printk"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>function::printk — Send a message to the kernel trace buffer </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><pre class="programlisting"> printk(level:long,msg:string) </pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="idp11071712"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>level</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> an integer for the severity level (0=KERN_EMERG ... 7=KERN_DEBUG) </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>msg</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> The formatted message string </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="idp11076944"></a><h2>Description</h2><p> Print a line of text to the kernel dmesg/console with the given severity. An implicit end-of-line is added. This function may not be safely called from all kernel probe contexts, so is restricted to guru mode only. </p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re407.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ch21.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re409.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"><span>function::log</span> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> <span>function::warn</span></td></tr></table></div></body></html>