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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/clearing-warn-once.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst | 8 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/clearing-warn-once.txt b/Documentation/clearing-warn-once.txt index 5b1f5d547be1..c68598b31428 100644 --- a/Documentation/clearing-warn-once.txt +++ b/Documentation/clearing-warn-once.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -WARN_ONCE / WARN_ON_ONCE only print a warning once. +WARN_ONCE / WARN_ON_ONCE / printk_once only emit a message once. echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/clear_warn_once diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst index c37ec7cd9c06..75d2bbe9813f 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst @@ -58,6 +58,14 @@ A raw pointer value may be printed with %p which will hash the address before printing. The kernel also supports extended specifiers for printing pointers of different types. +Some of the extended specifiers print the data on the given address instead +of printing the address itself. In this case, the following error messages +might be printed instead of the unreachable information:: + + (null) data on plain NULL address + (efault) data on invalid address + (einval) invalid data on a valid address + Plain Pointers -------------- |