linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] tracing: add tracing support for compat syscalls

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Date:	Mon, 8 Feb 2010 10:43:25 -0500
From:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	lizf@...fujitsu.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, fweisbec@...il.com,
	mingo@...e.hu, hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mhiramat@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] tracing: add tracing support for compat syscalls

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:52:51PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:21:51PM -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> > Add core support to event tracing for compat syscalls. The basic idea is that we
> > check if we have a compat task via 'is_compat_task()'. If so, we lookup in the
> > new compat_syscalls_metadata table, the corresponding struct syscall_metadata, to
> > check syscall arguments and whether or not we are enabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/compat.h        |    8 +++++
> >  include/trace/syscall.h       |    4 ++
> >  kernel/trace/trace.h          |    2 +
> >  kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c |   63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> >  4 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h
> > index ef68119..ab2cda2 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/compat.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/compat.h
> > @@ -353,5 +353,13 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_newfstatat(unsigned int dfd, char __user * filename,
> >  asmlinkage long compat_sys_openat(unsigned int dfd, const char __user *filename,
> >  				  int flags, int mode);
> > 
> > +#else /* CONFIG_COMPAT */
> > +
> > +#define NR_syscalls_compat 0
> > +static inline int is_compat_task(void)
> > +{
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> >  #endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */
> >  #endif /* _LINUX_COMPAT_H */
> 
> This part will break compilation on s390, since it has already the same
> function defined for !CONFIG_COMPAT.

If multiple arches want this definition, then it seems the the common
include/linux/compat.h is good place for it.

> In order to avoid the whole ifdef mess some s390 files do include
> asm/compat.h instead of linux/compat.h. This will get messy :)

is there a way for s390 to use the common include/linux/compat.h file?
what other arch defs are required? 

thanks,

-Jason
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