linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] convert ftrace syscall tracer to TRACE

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Message-ID: <20090509140717.GB22000@elte.hu>
Date:	Sat, 9 May 2009 16:07:17 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>, Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, peterz@...radead.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, jiayingz@...gle.com,
	mbligh@...gle.com, roland@...hat.com, fche@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] convert ftrace syscall tracer to TRACE_EVENT()


* Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:

> > Note, this assumes that all syscall types can be described via 
> > __field() - i think that's correct. (we dont want to deref 
> > strings as they are untrusted, and there are no arrays in 
> > syscall parameters)
> 
> Yeah, but we can also define a __string_from_user(), should be 
> trivial.

We cannot really do that, because we cannot check the type in a 
macro. So we dont know when to inject __field() versus 
__string_from_user().

> > Can you see any complication?
> 
> Just about the order of headers to include and headers 
> dependencies....

That is testable and any problems will be found at the build stage, 
so it should be solvable.

	Ingo
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