On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 20:04 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > I'm really thinking the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT flag is getting a bit > > ridiculous. We really should have a "swap syscall table when tracepoints > > enabled" that changes the syscall table that does exactly the same thing > > as the normal table but wraps the system call with the tracepoints. > > But we also need to force the slow path in system_call... Why? If we remove the tracepoint from the slowpath and use a table swap, then we wouldn't need to use the slowpath at all. > > Anyway, do you agree with this change for now? Well, if it's solving a bug today sure. But we should really be looking at fixing what's there for the future. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
