diff --git a/src/utils.cc b/src/utils.cc
index 2a1e5a1..afb3d5b 100644
--- a/src/utils.cc
+++ b/src/utils.cc
@@ -1008,6 +1008,11 @@
 #else
 
 void DumpKernelStack(std::ostream& os, pid_t tid, const char* prefix, bool include_count) {
+  if (tid == GetTid()) {
+    // There's no point showing that we're reading our stack out of /proc!
+    return;
+  }
+
   std::string kernel_stack_filename(StringPrintf("/proc/self/task/%d/stack", tid));
   std::string kernel_stack;
   if (!ReadFileToString(kernel_stack_filename, &kernel_stack)) {