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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst | 9 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst index 235ce2ab131a..a3ac7c9ac242 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst @@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ 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), "string" and bitfield are supported. + (x8/x16/x32/x64), "string", "ustring" and bitfield + are supported. (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0). (\*2) only for return probe. @@ -77,7 +78,11 @@ apply it to registers/stack-entries etc. (for example, '$stack1:x8[8]' is wrong, but '+8($stack):x8[8]' is OK.) 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. +has been paged out. "ustring" type is an alternative of string for user-space. +Note that kprobe-event provides string/ustring types, but doesn't change it +automatically. So user has to decide if the targe string in kernel or in user +space carefully. On some arch, if you choose wrong one, it always fails to +record string data. The string array type is a bit different from other types. For other base types, <base-type>[1] is equal to <base-type> (e.g. +0(%di):x32[1] is same as +0(%di):x32.) But string[1] is not equal to string. The string type itself |