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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`. |