[PATCH 6/6] trace syscalls: Early terminate search for sys_ni_syscall

[Ian Munsie]

From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Many system calls are unimplemented and mapped to sys_ni_syscall, but at
boot ftrace would still search through every syscall metadata entry for
a match which wouldn't be there.

This patch adds causes the search to terminate early if the system call
is not mapped.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
index 85983fd..6e17886 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ static struct syscall_metadata *find_syscall_meta(unsigned long syscall)
 	stop = (struct syscall_metadata *)__stop_syscalls_metadata;
 	kallsyms_lookup(syscall, NULL, NULL, NULL, str);
 
+	if (arch_syscall_match_sym_name(str, "sys_ni_syscall"))
+		return NULL;
+
 	for ( ; start < stop; start++) {
 		if (start->name && arch_syscall_match_sym_name(str, start->name))
 			return start;
-- 
1.7.2.3

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