[PATCH v2 6/7] Documentation: tracing: add new type '%pd' and '%pD' for kprobe
From: Ye Bin <hidden>
Date: 2024-01-22 07:39:00
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Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu
Similar to printk() '%pd' is for fetch dentry's name from struct dentry's pointer, and '%pD' is for fetch file's name from struct file's pointer. Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <redacted> --- Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
index bf9cecb69fc9..a1d12d65a8dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events NAME=FETCHARG : Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG. FETCHARG:TYPE : Set TYPE as the type of FETCHARG. Currently, basic types (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64), hexadecimal types - (x8/x16/x32/x64), "char", "string", "ustring", "symbol", "symstr" + (x8/x16/x32/x64), VFS layer common type(%pd/%pD) for print + file name, "char", "string", "ustring", "symbol", "symstr" and bitfield are supported. (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0). Note, this argument access
@@ -113,6 +114,9 @@ With 'symstr' type, you can filter the event with wildcard pattern of the symbols, and you don't need to solve symbol name by yourself. For $comm, the default type is "string"; any other type is invalid. +VFS layer common type(%pd/%pD) is a special type, which fetches dentry's or +file's name from struct dentry's pointer or struct file's pointer. + .. _user_mem_access: User Memory Access
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