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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/timekeeping.rst | 6 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst index a407cdd09083..5d8f1e84dd90 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst @@ -112,6 +112,20 @@ 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 --------------- diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/timekeeping.rst b/Documentation/core-api/timekeeping.rst index c0ffa30c7c37..729e24864fe7 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/timekeeping.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/timekeeping.rst @@ -154,9 +154,9 @@ architectures. These are the recommended replacements: Use ktime_get() or ktime_get_ts64() instead. -.. c:function:: struct timeval do_gettimeofday( void ) - struct timespec getnstimeofday( void ) - struct timespec64 getnstimeofday64( void ) +.. c:function:: void do_gettimeofday( struct timeval * ) + void getnstimeofday( struct timespec * ) + void getnstimeofday64( struct timespec64 * ) void ktime_get_real_ts( struct timespec * ) ktime_get_real_ts64() is a direct replacement, but consider using |