Re: [RFC] convert ftrace syscall tracer to TRACE_EVENT()

[Ingo Molnar]

* Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Note, this assumes that all syscall types can be described via 
> > __field() - i think that's correct. (we dont want to deref 
> > strings as they are untrusted, and there are no arrays in 
> > syscall parameters)
> 
> Yeah, but we can also define a __string_from_user(), should be 
> trivial.

We cannot really do that, because we cannot check the type in a 
macro. So we dont know when to inject __field() versus 
__string_from_user().

> > Can you see any complication?
> 
> Just about the order of headers to include and headers 
> dependencies....

That is testable and any problems will be found at the build stage, 
so it should be solvable.

	Ingo
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