From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754702Ab0ENCHO (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2010 22:07:14 -0400 Received: from e23smtp04.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.146]:56761 "EHLO e23smtp04.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752201Ab0ENCHK (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2010 22:07:10 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: linux-kernel , Steven Rostedt , Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev , Jason Baron Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] ftrace syscalls: Allow arch specific syscall symbol matching From: Ian Munsie To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt In-reply-to: <1273794896.21352.203.camel@pasglop> References: <1273736594-19320-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com> <1273736594-19320-4-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com> <1273794896.21352.203.camel@pasglop> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 12:06:41 +1000 Message-Id: <1273802608-sup-8186@au1.ibm.com> User-Agent: Sup/0.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Excerpts from Benjamin Herrenschmidt's message of Fri May 14 09:54:56 +1000 2010: > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:43 +1000, Ian Munsie wrote: > > From: Ian Munsie > > > > Some architectures have unusual symbol names and the generic code to > > match the symbol name with the function name for the syscall metadata > > will fail. For example, symbols on PPC64 start with a period and the > > generic code will fail to match them. > > > > This patch splits out the match logic into a standalone weak function > > that can be overridden on archs with unusual symbol names. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie > > --- > > Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt > --- > > Ian, I assume you will implement the support for the "special" ppc_* > syscalls via a subsequent patch and not a respin of this one right ? > > Cheers, > Ben. Yes, that will be in a separate patch or two. Cheers, -Ian