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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/trace')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt index 9109c8e8a5a1..e4991fb1eedc 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt @@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ Types ----- Several types are supported for fetch-args. Kprobe tracer will access memory by given type. Prefix 's' and 'u' means those types are signed and unsigned -respectively. Traced arguments are shown in decimal (signed) or hex (unsigned). +respectively. 'x' prefix implies it is unsigned. Traced arguments are shown +in decimal ('s' and 'u') or hexadecimal ('x'). Without type casting, 'x32' +or 'x64' is used depends on the architecture (e.g. x86-32 uses x32, and +x86-64 uses x64). String type is a special type, which fetches a "null-terminated" string from kernel space. This means it will fail and store NULL if the string container has been paged out. diff --git a/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt b/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt index 7e6d28c54b75..94b6b4581763 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt @@ -50,7 +50,10 @@ Types ----- Several types are supported for fetch-args. Uprobe tracer will access memory by given type. Prefix 's' and 'u' means those types are signed and unsigned -respectively. Traced arguments are shown in decimal (signed) or hex (unsigned). +respectively. 'x' prefix implies it is unsigned. Traced arguments are shown +in decimal ('s' and 'u') or hexadecimal ('x'). Without type casting, 'x32' +or 'x64' is used depends on the architecture (e.g. x86-32 uses x32, and +x86-64 uses x64). String type is a special type, which fetches a "null-terminated" string from user space. Bitfield is another special type, which takes 3 parameters, bit-width, bit- |