Documentation: tracing: Add a note about argument and retval access

Add a note about the argument and return value accecss will be best
effort. Depending on the type, it will be passed via stack or a
pair of the registers, but $argN and $retval only support the
single register access.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/169556269377.146934.14829235476649685954.stgit@devnote2/

Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>

Author: mhiramat

Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst

@@ -59,8 +59,12 @@ Synopsis of fprobe-events
                   and bitfield are supported.
 
   (\*1) This is available only when BTF is enabled.
-  (\*2) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0).
-  (\*3) only for return probe.
+  (\*2) 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
+        the stack. But this only support the arguments via registers.
+  (\*3) only for return probe. Note that this is also best effort. Depending on the
+        return value type, it might be passed via a pair of registers. But this only
+        accesses one register.
   (\*4) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures.
   (\*5) "u" means user-space dereference.
 

Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst

@@ -61,8 +61,12 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
 		  (x8/x16/x32/x64), "char", "string", "ustring", "symbol", "symstr"
                   and bitfield are supported.
 
-  (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0).
-  (\*2) only for return probe.
+  (\*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
+        the stack. But this only support the arguments via registers.
+  (\*2) only for return probe. Note that this is also best effort. Depending on the
+        return value type, it might be passed via a pair of registers. But this only
+        accesses one register.
   (\*3) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures.
   (\*4) "u" means user-space dereference. See :ref:`user_mem_access`.