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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tracing/syscalls: ignore numbers outside NR_syscalls' range
On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:14:41 +0000
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:


> We have always had syscall number range of 0x900000 or so. The tracing
> design does not expect that. Therefore, the tracing design did not take
> account of ARM when it was created. Therefore, it's up to the tracing
> people to decide how to properly fit their ill-designed subsystem into
> one of the popular and well-established kernel architectures - or at
> least suggest a way to work around this issue.
>


Fine, lets define a MAX_SYSCALL_NR that is by default NR_syscalls, but
an architecture can override it.

In trace_syscalls.c, where the checks are done, have this:

#ifndef MAX_SYSCALL_NR
# define MAX_SYSCALL_NR NR_syscalls
#endif

change all the checks to test against MAX_SYSCALL_NR instead of
NR_syscalls.

Then in arch/arm/include/asm/syscall.h have:

#define MAX_SYSCALL_NR 0xa00000

or whatever would be the highest syscall number for ARM.

-- Steve


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