Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] tracing: tweaks for generic syscall events

[Ingo Molnar]

* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 02:43:10PM -0700, Josh Stone wrote:
> > This patch series moves the callbacks for the syscall tracepoints to the
> > definition site, and adds generic TRACE_EVENTs which capture all syscall
> > arguments.
> > 
> > New in v3:
> > - Give the thread flag a more generic name: TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT.
> > - Move the regfuncs to arch-specific files, per Jason's suggestion.
> > - Change _WITH_CALLBACK to just _FN, per Ingo's suggestion.
> > 
> > New in v4:
> > - Give the config flag a more generic name: HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS.
> > - Undo the arch reorg of the regfuncs, but conditionalize on above.
> > 
> > 
> > Sample trace output:
> >         sendmail-974   [000] 55665.464492: sys_enter: NR 14 (1, 7fff60f3af40, 7fff60f3aec0, 8, 0, 7fb1b6a05161)
> > 
> >         sendmail-974   [000] 55665.464496: sys_exit: NR 14 = 0
> > 
> >         sendmail-974   [000] 55665.464507: sys_enter: NR 23 (5, 7fff60f3b0d0, 0, 0, 7fff60f3b150, 7fff60f3ef01)
> > 
> >             sshd-978   [000] 55667.845359: sys_exit: NR 23 = 1
> > 
> >             sshd-978   [000] 55667.845373: sys_enter: NR 14 (0, 7fffc645ce90, 7fffc645cf10, 8, 0, 101010101010101)
> > 
> >             sshd-978   [000] 55667.845381: sys_exit: NR 14 = 0
> > 
> >             sshd-978   [000] 55667.845383: sys_enter: NR 14 (2, 7fffc645cf10, 0, 8, 0, 101010101010101)
> > 
> >             sshd-978   [000] 55667.845386: sys_exit: NR 14 = 0
> > 
> >             sshd-978   [000] 55667.845395: sys_enter: NR 0 (3, 7fffc6458f80, 4000, 1, 0, 0)
> > 
> >             sshd-978   [000] 55667.845478: sys_exit: NR 0 = 48
> > 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>

How about compat syscalls? If we touch this code we better cover 
them as well.

	Ingo
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