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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Cam Macdonell <cam@cs.ualberta.ca>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] Shared memory uio_pci driver
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:28:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100328132840.GC3417@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BAF39B7.1010508@redhat.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> ioctls encode the buffer size into the ioctl number, so in theory strace 
> doesn't need to be taught about an ioctl to show its buffer.

Unfortunately ioctl numbers don't always follow that rule :-(
But maybe that's just awful proprietary drivers that I've seen.

Anyway, strace should be taught how to read kernel headers to get
ioctl types ;-)

-- Jamie

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Cam Macdonell <cam@cs.ualberta.ca>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] Shared memory uio_pci driver
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:28:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100328132840.GC3417@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BAF39B7.1010508@redhat.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> ioctls encode the buffer size into the ioctl number, so in theory strace 
> doesn't need to be taught about an ioctl to show its buffer.

Unfortunately ioctl numbers don't always follow that rule :-(
But maybe that's just awful proprietary drivers that I've seen.

Anyway, strace should be taught how to read kernel headers to get
ioctl types ;-)

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-28 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-25  6:09 [PATCH v3 1/1] Shared memory uio_pci driver Cam Macdonell
2010-03-25  6:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cam Macdonell
2010-03-25  9:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25  9:05   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25  9:47   ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25  9:47     ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 16:30   ` Cam Macdonell
2010-03-25 16:30     ` [Qemu-devel] " Cam Macdonell
2010-03-25 16:34     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25 16:34       ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25 17:07       ` Cam Macdonell
2010-03-25 17:07         ` [Qemu-devel] " Cam Macdonell
2010-03-25 16:36   ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 16:36     ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 16:37     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25 16:37       ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25 16:51       ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 16:51         ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-25  9:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25  9:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25  9:15   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25  9:40   ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25  9:40     ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-25  9:44     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25  9:44       ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25  9:58       ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25  9:58       ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25  9:58         ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 10:07         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25 10:07           ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25 10:07         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25  9:44     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25  9:40   ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 16:18   ` Cam Macdonell
2010-03-25 16:18   ` Cam Macdonell
2010-03-25 16:18     ` [Qemu-devel] " Cam Macdonell
2010-03-25 16:23     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-25 16:23       ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-03-25 16:32       ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 16:32       ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 16:32         ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 16:40         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25 16:40         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25 16:40           ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25 16:50           ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 16:50           ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 16:50             ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 16:33       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25 16:33         ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25 16:33       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25 16:23     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-25  9:46 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25  9:46   ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 16:24   ` Cam Macdonell
2010-03-25 16:24     ` [Qemu-devel] " Cam Macdonell
2010-03-25 16:35     ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 16:35       ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-26 16:14       ` Cam Macdonell
2010-03-26 16:14         ` [Qemu-devel] " Cam Macdonell
2010-03-27 17:48         ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-27 17:48           ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-28  7:47           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-28  7:47             ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-28  8:02             ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-28  8:02               ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-28  9:40               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-28  9:40                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-28  9:45                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-28  9:45                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-28 10:31                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-28 10:31                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-28 11:12                     ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-28 11:12                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-28 13:28                       ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2010-03-28 13:28                         ` Jamie Lokier
2010-03-28 13:47                         ` malc
2010-03-28 13:47                           ` malc
2010-03-28 19:48           ` Cam Macdonell
2010-03-28 19:48             ` [Qemu-devel] " Cam Macdonell
2010-03-29 20:59             ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-29 20:59               ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-30 14:52               ` Cam Macdonell
2010-03-30 14:52                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Cam Macdonell
2010-04-01  8:59                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-01  8:59                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-31  9:12               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-31  9:12                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-04-01  8:58                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-01  8:58                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-04-01 10:59                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-04-01 10:59                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-04-01 11:27                     ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-01 11:27                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 16:42     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25 16:42       ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin

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