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-rw-r--r--Documentation/core-api/cachetlb.rst10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst8
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/cachetlb.rst b/Documentation/core-api/cachetlb.rst
index 6eb9d3f090cd..93cb65d52720 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/cachetlb.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/cachetlb.rst
@@ -101,16 +101,6 @@ changes occur:
translations for software managed TLB configurations.
The sparc64 port currently does this.
-6) ``void tlb_migrate_finish(struct mm_struct *mm)``
-
- This interface is called at the end of an explicit
- process migration. This interface provides a hook
- to allow a platform to update TLB or context-specific
- information for the address space.
-
- The ia64 sn2 platform is one example of a platform
- that uses this interface.
-
Next, we have the cache flushing interfaces. In general, when Linux
is changing an existing virtual-->physical mapping to a new value,
the sequence will be in one of the following forms::
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
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