Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Apr 2018 14:29:40 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] tracing/x86: Update syscall trace events to handle new x86 syscall func names |
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Em Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 01:07:02PM -0400, Steven Rostedt escreveu: > From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org> > > Arnaldo noticed that the latest kernel is missing the syscall event system > directory in x86. I bisected it down to d5a00528b58c ("syscalls/core, > syscalls/x86: Rename struct pt_regs-based sys_*() to __x64_sys_*()"). > > The system call trace events are special, as there is only one trace event > for all system calls (the raw_syscalls). But a macro that wraps the system > calls creates meta data for them that copies the name to find the system > call that maps to the system call table (the number). At boot up, it does a > kallsyms lookup for this mapping. If it does not find a function, then that > system call is ignored. > > Because the x86 system calls had "__x64_" appended to the "sys" for the > names, they do not match the default compare algorithm. As this was a > problem for power pc, the algorithm can be overwritten by the architecture. > The solution is to have x86 have its own algorithm to do the compare and > this brings back the system call trace events. > > Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> > Fixes: d5a00528b58c ("syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Rename struct pt_regs-based sys_*() to __x64_sys_*()") > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Again on x86_64, the number of files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/ is the same, all my perf related tests pass.
Now to the next seemingly kernel related test failure, unrelated to this:
4: Read samples using the mmap interface : FAILED!
- Arnaldo
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