linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/40] tracing: remove syscall bitmaps in preparation for compat support

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Message-ID: <1277322347.9181.54.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:45:47 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/40] tracing: remove syscall bitmaps in preparation
 for compat support

On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 15:34 -0400, Jason Baron wrote:

> Actually, looking at this further, what we probably want to do change
> the "int nb_args" field, which is already in syscall_metadata into a bit
> field. nb_args I think can be at most 6, or 3 bits, and we only need 4
> bits for storing the enabled/disabled data, so we could even make it a
> char. Thus, actually saving space with this patch :) (at least as far as
> the syscall_metadata field is concerned).

Yeah, I'm fine with turning that into a count/flags field.

-- Steve


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