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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst index 8ebe46b1af39..5dfcc4592b23 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 --------------- |