From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] ftrace syscalls: Allow arch specific syscall symbol matching
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 12:06:41 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1273802608-sup-8186@au1.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273794896.21352.203.camel@pasglop>
Excerpts from Benjamin Herrenschmidt's message of Fri May 14 09:54:56 +1000 2010:
> On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:43 +1000, Ian Munsie wrote:
> > From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
> >
> > Some architectures have unusual symbol names and the generic code to
> > match the symbol name with the function name for the syscall metadata
> > will fail. For example, symbols on PPC64 start with a period and the
> > generic code will fail to match them.
> >
> > This patch splits out the match logic into a standalone weak function
> > that can be overridden on archs with unusual symbol names.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
> > ---
>
> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
>
> Ian, I assume you will implement the support for the "special" ppc_*
> syscalls via a subsequent patch and not a respin of this one right ?
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
Yes, that will be in a separate patch or two.
Cheers,
-Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-14 2:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-13 7:43 ftrace syscalls, PowerPC: Fixes and PowerPC raw syscall tracepoint implementation Ian Munsie
2010-05-13 7:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] ftrace syscalls: don't add events for unmapped syscalls Ian Munsie
2010-05-13 7:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] ftrace syscalls: Make arch_syscall_addr weak Ian Munsie
2010-05-13 7:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] ftrace syscalls: Allow arch specific syscall symbol matching Ian Munsie
2010-05-13 23:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-14 2:06 ` Ian Munsie [this message]
2010-05-13 7:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] trace, powerpc: Implement raw syscall tracepoints on PowerPC Ian Munsie
2010-05-13 12:09 ` Michael Ellerman
2010-05-14 2:03 ` Ian Munsie
2010-05-14 8:41 ` [PATCH v2] " Ian Munsie
2010-05-13 16:06 ` ftrace syscalls, PowerPC: Fixes and PowerPC raw syscall tracepoint implementation Steven Rostedt
2010-05-13 16:12 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-05-13 23:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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