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| author |   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2019-11-26 11:06:19 -0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2019-11-26 11:06:19 -0300 |
| commit | 2ea352d5960ad469f5712cf3e293db97beac4e01 (patch) | |
| tree | c24ae19073f2884867b310ee193d36a82075b60f /Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst | |
| parent | Merge branch 'x86/core' into perf/core, to resolve conflicts and to pick up completed topic tree (diff) | |
| parent | Merge tag 'for-linus-5.5-1' of git://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-2ea352d5960ad469f5712cf3e293db97beac4e01.tar.xz linux-dev-2ea352d5960ad469f5712cf3e293db97beac4e01.zip | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/core
To pick up BPF changes we'll need.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst index ecbebf4ca8e7..050f34f3a70f 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst @@ -79,6 +79,18 @@ has the added benefit of providing a unique identifier. On 64-bit machines the first 32 bits are zeroed. The kernel will print ``(ptrval)`` until it gathers enough entropy. If you *really* want the address see %px below. +Error Pointers +-------------- + +:: + + %pe -ENOSPC + +For printing error pointers (i.e. a pointer for which IS_ERR() is true) +as a symbolic error name. Error values for which no symbolic name is +known are printed in decimal, while a non-ERR_PTR passed as the +argument to %pe gets treated as ordinary %p. + Symbols/Function Pointers ------------------------- |