ftrace: kprobe: uprobe: Add x8/x16/x32/x64 for hexadecimal types
Add x8/x16/x32/x64 for hexadecimal type casting to kprobe/uprobe event
tracer.
These type casts can be used for integer arguments for explicitly
showing them in hexadecimal digits in formatted text.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147151067029.12957.11591314629326414783.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt b/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt
index 72d1cd4..7e6d28c 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
+|-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.