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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst index c37ec7cd9c06..b2cac8d76b66 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst @@ -58,6 +58,13 @@ A raw pointer value may be printed with %p which will hash the address before printing. The kernel also supports extended specifiers for printing pointers of different types. +Some of the extended specifiers print the data on the given address instead +of printing the address itself. In this case, the following error messages +might be printed instead of the unreachable information:: + + (null) data on plain NULL address + (efault) data on invalid address + Plain Pointers -------------- |