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index f063a384c7c8..e08bbe9b0cbf 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
@@ -37,14 +37,13 @@ Integer types
u64 %llu or %llx
-If <type> is dependent on a config option for its size (e.g., sector_t,
-blkcnt_t) or is architecture-dependent for its size (e.g., tcflag_t), use a
-format specifier of its largest possible type and explicitly cast to it.
+If <type> is architecture-dependent for its size (e.g., cycles_t, tcflag_t) or
+is dependent on a config option for its size (e.g., blk_status_t), use a format
+specifier of its largest possible type and explicitly cast to it.
Example::
- printk("test: sector number/total blocks: %llu/%llu\n",
- (unsigned long long)sector, (unsigned long long)blockcount);
+ printk("test: latency: %llu cycles\n", (unsigned long long)time);
Reminder: sizeof() returns type size_t.
@@ -126,6 +125,18 @@ used when printing stack backtraces. The specifier takes into
consideration the effect of compiler optimisations which may occur
when tail-calls are used and marked with the noreturn GCC attribute.
+If the pointer is within a module, the module name and optionally build ID is
+printed after the symbol name with an extra ``b`` appended to the end of the
+specifier.
+
+::
+
+ %pS versatile_init+0x0/0x110 [module_name]
+ %pSb versatile_init+0x0/0x110 [module_name ed5019fdf5e53be37cb1ba7899292d7e143b259e]
+ %pSRb versatile_init+0x9/0x110 [module_name ed5019fdf5e53be37cb1ba7899292d7e143b259e]
+ (with __builtin_extract_return_addr() translation)
+ %pBb prev_fn_of_versatile_init+0x88/0x88 [module_name ed5019fdf5e53be37cb1ba7899292d7e143b259e]
+
Probed Pointers from BPF / tracing
----------------------------------
@@ -514,9 +525,10 @@ Time and date
::
%pt[RT] YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS
+ %pt[RT]s YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS
%pt[RT]d YYYY-mm-dd
%pt[RT]t HH:MM:SS
- %pt[RT][dt][r]
+ %pt[RT][dt][r][s]
For printing date and time as represented by::
@@ -528,6 +540,10 @@ in human readable format.
By default year will be incremented by 1900 and month by 1.
Use %pt[RT]r (raw) to suppress this behaviour.
+The %pt[RT]s (space) will override ISO 8601 separator by using ' ' (space)
+instead of 'T' (Capital T) between date and time. It won't have any effect
+when date or time is omitted.
+
Passed by reference.
struct clk