Sometimes people seems unclear when to use the %pS or %pF printk format.
Adding some examples may help to avoid such mistakes.
See for example commit 51d96dc2e2dc ("random: fix warning message on ia64 and
parisc") which fixed such a wrong format string.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
diff --git a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
index 65ea591..be8c05b 100644
--- a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
@@ -73,6 +73,12 @@ actually function descriptors which must first be resolved. The ``F`` and
``f`` specifiers perform this resolution and then provide the same
functionality as the ``S`` and ``s`` specifiers.
+Examples::
+
+ printk("Called from %pS.\n", __builtin_return_address(0));
+ printk("Called from %pS.\n", (void *)regs->ip);
+ printk("Called from %pF.\n", &gettimeofday);
+
Kernel Pointers
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