This patchset adds support syscall event tracing for compat syscalls. Patch 1 removes the unnecessary syscall_nr field from syscall metadata, which was one of the obstacles for adding proper support for compat syscalls. Patch 2 adds a method to distinguish handling of syscalls for compat tasks if an arch requires that. In disussions about an earlier version of these patches (http://marc.info/?l=linux-mips&m=147259973128606&w=2) it was suggested to use audit arch for detecting syscall type. After analysing the code for various arches it seemed to me that this would add an unnecessary complexity (as would require extra APIs to enumerate and map all audit arch types) and I've just simply used compat task status to determine call type. I cannot see any added value from using the audit arch type in this context, but it is of course possible that I'm missing some vital piece of information here ... hence this change is sent as an RFC so that I can get valuable feedback on the proposed solution. Finally the last patch adds the missing compat syscall metadata. Marcin Nowakowski (3): tracing/syscalls: remove syscall_nr from syscall metadata tracing/syscalls: add handling for compat tasks tracing/syscalls: add compat syscall metadata arch/mips/kernel/ftrace.c | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h | 10 +- arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c | 14 +++ include/linux/compat.h | 74 ++++++++++++ include/linux/ftrace.h | 2 +- include/linux/syscalls.h | 1 - include/trace/syscall.h | 2 - kernel/trace/trace.h | 11 +- kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 254 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 9 files changed, 265 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
