Re: [PATCH 4/6] trace: trace syscall in its handler not from ptracehandler

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/29/2012 03:44 PM, David Sharp wrote:
>>
>> ANY increase to the fastpath is unacceptable, period.
> 
> I think the last 4 ns would probably be eliminated if we could figure
> out how to call the inline function trace_sys_enter directly instead
> of through the out-of-line wrapper we had to add to work around the
> preprocessor magic.

I already told you how to do it... override the system call table entry.
 There is a nice, juicy FUNCTION POINTER that we indirect through.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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