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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt')
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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt index ea52ec1f8484..e4991fb1eedc 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt @@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events +|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(**) 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), "string" and bitfield - are supported. + (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64), hexadecimal types + (x8/x16/x32/x64), "string" and bitfield are supported. (*) only for return probe. (**) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures. @@ -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. |