Re: [RFC] Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] tracing/syscalls: Rename variable 'nr' to '__syscall_nr'

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 01:23:01PM -0500, Steven Rostedt escreveu:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:57:13 -0300 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If we stand by published ABIs, we should keep it written in stone and
> > state that the first 'nr' means '__syscall_nr' while keeping it as-is,
> > the change for 'perf trace' in that case is to do nothing, it work
> > as-is, we have just to fix the python binding to do that rename.

<SNIP>

> > Perhaps we can live with that, to avoid having three different cases:
> > !nr, nr and __syscall_nr.
> 
> We could, do this as well. Want me to add something to event-parse?

You mean do nothing in the kernel? Suits me fine, the fix would be just
on the tools/perf/ code, where it generates the python skeletons, I can
do that, as I guess Taeung is sleep at this point :-)

- Arnaldo