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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-18 17:35:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-18 17:39:31 +0000 |
| commit | 85c675d0d09a45a135bddd15d7b385f8758c32fb (patch) | |
| tree | 76267dbc9b9a130337be3640948fe397b04ac629 /Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst | |
| parent | Adding upstream version 6.6.15. (diff) | |
| download | linux-85c675d0d09a45a135bddd15d7b385f8758c32fb.tar.xz linux-85c675d0d09a45a135bddd15d7b385f8758c32fb.zip | |
Adding upstream version 6.7.7.upstream/6.7.7
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst index 8a2dfee381..bf9cecb69f 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst @@ -61,8 +61,12 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events (x8/x16/x32/x64), "char", "string", "ustring", "symbol", "symstr" and bitfield are supported. - (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0). - (\*2) only for return probe. + (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0). Note, this argument access + is best effort, because depending on the argument type, it may be passed on + the stack. But this only support the arguments via registers. + (\*2) only for return probe. Note that this is also best effort. Depending on the + return value type, it might be passed via a pair of registers. But this only + accesses one register. (\*3) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures. (\*4) "u" means user-space dereference. See :ref:`user_mem_access`. |