Re: [S390] ftrace: update system call tracer support

[Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:51:10 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > * Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > [ Adding to Cc everyone that now has a broken tree thanks to this .. ]
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:11:33AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > This pull request integrate one cleanup/fix for ftrace and an 
> > > > > update for syscall tracing: the migration from old-style tracer to 
> > > > > individual tracepoints/trace_events and the support for perf 
> > > > > counter.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I've tested it with success either with ftrace (every syscall 
> > > > > tracepoints enabled at the same time without problems) and with 
> > > > > perfcounter.
> > > > > 
> > > > > May be one drawback: it creates so much trace events that the 
> > > > > ftrace selftests can take some time :-)
> > > > 
> > > > Pulled, thanks a lot!
> > > 
> > > And this has now subsequently broken every single SH and S390 
> > > configuration, [...]
> > 
> > I test SH cross-builds regularly. I just checked the SH defconfig 
> > and it builds just fine here:
> > 
> > $ make -j32 CROSS_COMPILE=sh3-linux- ARCH=sh vmlinux
> 
> The s390 build indeed broke. (This got masked by the s390 toolchain 
> i'm using not having been able to build Linus's tree - i fixed 
> that.)
> 
> Could you try the fix below? It does the trick here.
> 
> Martin, Heiko - does the fix look good to you? regs->gprs[2] seems 
> to be the register used for both the syscall number (enter 
> callback) and for the return code (exit callback).

Correct, for do_syscall_trace_{enter,exit} the code in entry.S stores
the system call number in regs->gprs[2]. The fix is fine.
Thanks Ingo.

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