linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] tracing: Document HAVE_SYSCALL

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Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:13:16 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] tracing: Document HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS needs

Document the arch needed requirements to get the support for syscalls
tracing.

v2: HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS have been changed to HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
    recently. Update this config name in the documentation then.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
---
 Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt |   13 +++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
index 7003e10..641a1ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
@@ -213,10 +213,19 @@ If you can't trace NMI functions, then skip this option.
 <details to be filled>
 
 
-HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
+HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
 ---------------------
 
-<details to be filled>
+You need very few things to get the syscalls tracing in an arch.
+
+- Have a NR_syscalls variable in <asm/unistd.h> that provides the number
+  of syscalls supported by the arch.
+- Implement arch_syscall_addr() that resolves a syscall address from a
+  syscall number.
+- Support the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT thread flags
+- Put the trace_sys_enter() and trace_sys_exit() tracepoints calls from ptrace
+  in the ptrace syscalls tracing path.
+- Tag this arch as HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS.
 
 
 HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
-- 
1.6.2.3

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