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From: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v8 3/5] Documentation: tracing: add new type '%pd' and '%pD' for kprobe
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:43:06 +0800
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Similar to printk() '%pd' is for fetch dentry's name from struct dentry's
pointer, and '%pD' is for fetch file's name from struct file's pointer.

Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
---
 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
index bf9cecb69fc9..f13f0fc11251 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ 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), "char", "string", "ustring", "symbol", "symstr"
-                  and bitfield are supported.
+		  (x8/x16/x32/x64), VFS layer common type(%pd/%pD), "char",
+                  "string", "ustring", "symbol", "symstr" and bitfield are
+                  supported.
 
   (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0). Note, this argument access
         is best effort, because depending on the argument type, it may be passed on
@@ -113,6 +114,9 @@ With 'symstr' type, you can filter the event with wildcard pattern of the
 symbols, and you don't need to solve symbol name by yourself.
 For $comm, the default type is "string"; any other type is invalid.
 
+VFS layer common type(%pd/%pD) is a special type, which fetches dentry's or
+file's name from struct dentry's address or struct file's address.
+
 .. _user_mem_access:
 
 User Memory Access
-- 
2.31.1