From fd46cd55fbc5a8e8c180ee04a30cda26c84569d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Helge Deller Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 21:52:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] printk-formats.txt: Add examples for %pF and %pS usage Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- Documentation/printk-formats.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt index 074670b98bac..361789df51ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt @@ -75,6 +75,16 @@ used when printing stack backtraces. The specifier takes into consideration the effect of compiler optimisations which may occur when tail-call``s are used and marked with the noreturn GCC attribute. +Examples:: + + printk("Going to call: %pF\n", gettimeofday); + printk("Going to call: %pF\n", p->func); + printk("%s: called from %pS\n", __func__, (void *)_RET_IP_); + printk("%s: called from %pS\n", __func__, + (void *)__builtin_return_address(0)); + printk("Faulted at %pS\n", (void *)regs->ip); + printk(" %s%pB\n", (reliable ? "" : "? "), (void *)*stack); + Kernel Pointers ===============