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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing: syscall_regfunc() should not skip kernel threads
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:26:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130318162650.GA20313@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363548972.25967.137.camel@gandalf.local.home>

On 03/17, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 20:04 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > > I'm really thinking the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT flag is getting a bit
> > > ridiculous. We really should have a "swap syscall table when tracepoints
> > > enabled" that changes the syscall table that does exactly the same thing
> > > as the normal table but wraps the system call with the tracepoints.
> >
> > But we also need to force the slow path in system_call...
>
> Why? If we remove the tracepoint from the slowpath and use a table swap,
> then we wouldn't need to use the slowpath at all.

Ah, indeed, you are right.

> > Anyway, do you agree with this change for now?
>
> Well, if it's solving a bug today sure. But we should really be looking
> at fixing what's there for the future.

OK, thanks.

Oleg.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-18 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20130317182834.GA22989@redhat.com>
2013-03-17 18:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] tracing: syscall_regfunc() should not skip kernel threads Steven Rostedt
2013-03-17 19:04   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-03-17 19:04     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-03-17 19:36     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-03-18 16:26       ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-03-18 16:26         ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-03-19 15:10     ` David Howells
2013-03-19 15:36       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-03-19 21:27         ` H. Peter Anvin

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