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-rw-r--r--Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst36
-rw-r--r--Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst5
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
index 1e3838652348..8c9aba262b1e 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
@@ -114,6 +114,20 @@ 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.
+Probed Pointers from BPF / tracing
+----------------------------------
+
+::
+
+ %pks kernel string
+ %pus user string
+
+The ``k`` and ``u`` specifiers are used for printing prior probed memory from
+either kernel memory (k) or user memory (u). The subsequent ``s`` specifier
+results in printing a string. For direct use in regular vsnprintf() the (k)
+and (u) annotation is ignored, however, when used out of BPF's bpf_trace_printk(),
+for example, it reads the memory it is pointing to without faulting.
+
Kernel Pointers
---------------
@@ -470,21 +484,23 @@ Examples (OF)::
%pfwf /ocp@68000000/i2c@48072000/camera@10/port/endpoint - Full name
%pfwP endpoint - Node name
-Time and date (struct rtc_time)
--------------------------------
+Time and date
+-------------
::
- %ptR YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS
- %ptRd YYYY-mm-dd
- %ptRt HH:MM:SS
- %ptR[dt][r]
+ %pt[RT] YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS
+ %pt[RT]d YYYY-mm-dd
+ %pt[RT]t HH:MM:SS
+ %pt[RT][dt][r]
-For printing date and time as represented by struct rtc_time structure in
-human readable format.
+For printing date and time as represented by
+ R struct rtc_time structure
+ T time64_t type
+in human readable format.
-By default year will be incremented by 1900 and month by 1. Use %ptRr (raw)
-to suppress this behaviour.
+By default year will be incremented by 1900 and month by 1.
+Use %pt[RT]r (raw) to suppress this behaviour.
Passed by reference.
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst b/Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst
index 49d9833af871..ec575e72d0b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ Memory Protection Keys
======================
Memory Protection Keys for Userspace (PKU aka PKEYs) is a feature
-which is found on Intel's Skylake "Scalable Processor" Server CPUs.
-It will be avalable in future non-server parts.
+which is found on Intel's Skylake (and later) "Scalable Processor"
+Server CPUs. It will be available in future non-server Intel parts
+and future AMD processors.
For anyone wishing to test or use this feature, it is available in
Amazon's EC2 C5 instances and is known to work there using an Ubuntu