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@@ -58,6 +58,13 @@ A raw pointer value may be printed with %p which will hash the address
before printing. The kernel also supports extended specifiers for printing
pointers of different types.
+Some of the extended specifiers print the data on the given address instead
+of printing the address itself. In this case, the following error messages
+might be printed instead of the unreachable information::
+
+ (null) data on plain NULL address
+ (efault) data on invalid address
+
Plain Pointers
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