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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>,
	Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>,
	utrace-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] tracing/ftrace: syscall tracing infrastructure
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:24:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090317052442.GA32674@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090316214526.GA15119@Krystal>

On 03/16, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>
> utrace_add_engine()
>   set_notify_resume(target);
>
> ok, so this is where the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME thread flag is set. I notice
> that it is set asynchronously with the execution of the target thread
> (as I do with my TIF_KERNEL_TRACE thread flag).
>
> However, on x86_64, _TIF_DO_NOTIFY_MASK is only tested in
> entry_64.S
>
> int_signal:
> and
> retint_signal:
>
> code paths. However, if there is no syscall tracing to do upon syscall
> entry, the thread flags are not re-read at syscall exit and you will
> miss the syscall exit returning from your target thread if this thread
> was blocked while you set its TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME.

Afaics, TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME is not needed to trace syscall entry/exit.
If engine wants the syscall tracing, utrace_set_events(UTRACE_SYSCALL_xxx)
sets TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE. And syscall_trace_enter/syscall_trace_leave call
tracehook_report_syscall_xxx().

Oleg.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-17  5:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-07  4:52 [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Syscalls tracing Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-07  4:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/2] tracing/ftrace: syscall tracing infrastructure Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-07  7:49   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-09 13:52     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-09 20:47       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-10  0:52         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-10 10:08           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-08 16:24   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-09 20:40     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-09 13:44   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-09 20:42     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-13  4:27   ` [tip:tracing/syscalls] tracing/ftrace: syscall tracing infrastructure, basics Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-16 19:36   ` [RFC][PATCH 1/2] tracing/ftrace: syscall tracing infrastructure Masami Hiramatsu
2009-03-16 20:15     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-16 20:38       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-03-16 21:45         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-16 22:18           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-03-16 23:46             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-23 16:42             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-23 16:52               ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-03-23 17:03                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-17  5:24           ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-03-17 16:00             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-19 10:34               ` Roland McGrath
2009-03-23 17:33                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-07  4:53 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/2] tracing/x86: basic implementation of syscall tracing for x86-64 Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-13  4:27   ` [tip:tracing/syscalls] tracing/x86: basic implementation of syscall tracing for x86 Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-13 16:09   ` [tip:tracing/syscalls] tracing/syscalls: support for syscalls tracing on x86, fix Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13 16:32   ` [RFC][PATCH 2/2] tracing/x86: basic implementation of syscall tracing for x86-64 Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-13 16:37     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13 16:50       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-15  4:44         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-15 15:16           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-15 19:22           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-07 12:15 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Syscalls tracing Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-07 16:02   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-08 11:24     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-08 11:28       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-07 20:26 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-03-07 21:53   ` Frederic Weisbecker

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