Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] tracing: tweaks for generic syscall events

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 02:43:10PM -0700, Josh Stone wrote:
> This patch series moves the callbacks for the syscall tracepoints to the
> definition site, and adds generic TRACE_EVENTs which capture all syscall
> arguments.
> 
> New in v3:
> - Give the thread flag a more generic name: TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT.
> - Move the regfuncs to arch-specific files, per Jason's suggestion.
> - Change _WITH_CALLBACK to just _FN, per Ingo's suggestion.
> 
> New in v4:
> - Give the config flag a more generic name: HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS.
> - Undo the arch reorg of the regfuncs, but conditionalize on above.
> 
> 
> Sample trace output:
>         sendmail-974   [000] 55665.464492: sys_enter: NR 14 (1, 7fff60f3af40, 7fff60f3aec0, 8, 0, 7fb1b6a05161)
> 
>         sendmail-974   [000] 55665.464496: sys_exit: NR 14 = 0
> 
>         sendmail-974   [000] 55665.464507: sys_enter: NR 23 (5, 7fff60f3b0d0, 0, 0, 7fff60f3b150, 7fff60f3ef01)
> 
>             sshd-978   [000] 55667.845359: sys_exit: NR 23 = 1
> 
>             sshd-978   [000] 55667.845373: sys_enter: NR 14 (0, 7fffc645ce90, 7fffc645cf10, 8, 0, 101010101010101)
> 
>             sshd-978   [000] 55667.845381: sys_exit: NR 14 = 0
> 
>             sshd-978   [000] 55667.845383: sys_enter: NR 14 (2, 7fffc645cf10, 0, 8, 0, 101010101010101)
> 
>             sshd-978   [000] 55667.845386: sys_exit: NR 14 = 0
> 
>             sshd-978   [000] 55667.845395: sys_enter: NR 0 (3, 7fffc6458f80, 4000, 1, 0, 0)
> 
>             sshd-978   [000] 55667.845478: sys_exit: NR 0 = 48
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
> Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>


Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>


Thanks!