[PATCH 1/7] add syscall tracepoints

[Jason Baron]

Add a new function to support translating a syscall name to number at runtime.
This allows the syscall event tracer to map syscall names to number.


Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
index b79c553..30baa5b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -502,6 +502,22 @@ struct syscall_metadata *syscall_nr_to_meta(int nr)
 	return syscalls_metadata[nr];
 }
 
+int syscall_name_to_nr(char *name)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	if (!syscalls_metadata)
+		return -1;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < FTRACE_SYSCALL_MAX; i++) {
+		if (syscalls_metadata[i]) {
+			if (!strcmp((syscalls_metadata[i])->name, name))
+				return i;
+		}
+	}
+	return -1;
+}
+
 void arch_init_ftrace_syscalls(void)
 {
 	int i;
-- 
1.6.0.6

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