diff --git a/doc/patch-author-guide.md b/doc/patch-author-guide.md
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@@ -149,9 +149,63 @@ to prevent patch B from writing to X, if A is already loaded.
 ### Use a shadow variable
 
 If you need to add a field to an existing data structure, or even many existing
-data structures, you can use the `kpatch_shadow_*()` functions.
+data structures, you can use the `kpatch_shadow_*()` functions:
 
-Example needed (see shadow-newpid.patch in the integration tests directory).
+* `kpatch_shadow_alloc` - allocates a new shadow variable associated with a
+  given object.
+* `kpatch_shadow_get` - find and return a pointer to a shadow variable
+* `kpatch_shadow_free` - find and free a shadow variable
+
+Example: The `shadow-newpid.patch` integration test demonstrates the usage of
+these functions.
+
+A shadow PID variable is allocated in `do_fork()` : it is associated with the
+current `struct task_struct *p` value, given a string lookup key of "newpid",
+sized accordingly, and allocated as per `GFP_KERNEL` flag rules.
+
+`kpatch_shadow_alloc` returns a pointer to the shadow variable, so we can
+dereference and make assignments as usual.  In this patch chunk, the shadow
+`newpid` is allocated then assigned to a rolling `ctr` counter value:
+```
++		int *newpid;
++		static int ctr = 0;
++
++		newpid = kpatch_shadow_alloc(p, "newpid", sizeof(*newpid),
++					     GFP_KERNEL);
++		if (newpid)
++			*newpid = ctr++;
+```
+
+A shadow variable may also be accessed via `kpatch_shadow_get`.  Here the
+patch modifies `task_context_switch_counts()` to fetch the shadow variable
+associated with the current `struct task_struct *p` object and a "newpid" tag.
+As in the previous patch chunk, the shadow variable pointer may be accessed
+as an ordinary pointer type:
+```
++	int *newpid;
++
+ 	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, "voluntary_ctxt_switches:\t", p->nvcsw);
+ 	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, "\nnonvoluntary_ctxt_switches:\t", p->nivcsw);
+ 	seq_putc(m, '\n');
++
++	newpid = kpatch_shadow_get(p, "newpid");
++	if (newpid)
++		seq_printf(m, "newpid:\t%d\n", *newpid);
+```
+
+A shadow variable is freed by calling `kpatch_shadow_free` and providing
+the object / string key combination.  Once freed, the shadow variable is not
+safe to access:
+```
+ 	exit_task_work(tsk);
+ 	exit_thread(tsk);
+ 
++	kpatch_shadow_free(tsk, "newpid");
++
+ 	/*
+ 	 * Flush inherited counters to the parent - before the parent
+ 	 * gets woken up by child-exit notifications.
+```
 
 Data semantic changes
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