Re: [PATCH 0/7] add syscall tracepoints

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:32:20PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> > 
> > The following is an implementation of Frederic's syscall tracer on 
> > top of tracepoints. It adds the ability to toggle the entry/exit 
> > of each syscall via the standard 
> > events/syscalls/syscall_blah/enable interface. The implementation 
> > is done by adding 2 tracepoints. One on entry and one for exit.
> > 
> > This implementation required a few 'core' api changes. I've added 
> > 'DECLARE_TRACE_REG()' macro which takes a register and and an 
> > unregister function as arguments. This allowed me to toggle the 
> > ftrace tif flag when the first tracepoint callback is added and 
> > the last is removed. Current callers of 'DECLARE_TRACE()' are not 
> > impacted.
> > 
> > Another change was to call arch_init_ftrace_syscalls via an 
> > 'arch_initall'. In this implmentation I needed to access the 
> > syscalls_metadata structure at runtime in order to determine which 
> > syscalls were 'traceable'. Although the implementation uses 
> > SYSCALL_DEFINE() to set up the the trace events, for some reason 
> > at runtime there is no syscalls_metadata, associated with some of 
> > the SYSCALL_DEFINE() calls. I'm not quite sure why that is. 
> > However, by calling arch_init_ftrace_syscalls() at boot I can make 
> > sure the lists are in sync.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > -Jason 
> > 
> > 
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h |    4 +-
> >  arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c      |   24 +++++-
> >  arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c      |    6 +-
> >  include/linux/syscalls.h      |   63 +++++++++++++++
> >  include/linux/tracepoint.h    |   27 ++++++-
> >  include/trace/syscall.h       |   37 +++++++---
> >  kernel/trace/trace_events.c   |   29 +++++---
> >  kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c |  172 +++++++++++++++++++----------------------
> >  kernel/tracepoint.c           |   38 +++++++++
> >  9 files changed, 278 insertions(+), 122 deletions(-)
> 
> This looks far nicer structurally. Steve, Frederic, what's your take 
> on this series?
> 
> 	Ingo


I've reviewed all of them and only found small neats to comment.
Yeah the direction looks better now.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>