linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] trace syscalls: Remove redundant syscall

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Date:	Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:47:42 +1100
From:	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Avantika Mathur <mathur@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] trace syscalls: Remove redundant syscall_nr checks

Excerpts from Steven Rostedt's message of Wed Dec 08 01:54:42 +1100 2010:
> On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 15:29 +1100, Ian Munsie wrote:
> > From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
> > 
> > With the ftrace events now checking if the syscall_nr is valid upon
> > initialisation, there is no need to verify it when registering and
> > unregistering the events, so remove the check.
> 
> I still like to keep these checks. I don't mind redundant checks that
> are in slow paths, as they may catch a bug on a change in the future.
> 
> What you could do is change these to:
> 
>     if (WARN_ON_ONCE(num < 0 || num >= NR_syscalls))

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the feedback. Will update and resubmit.

Cheers,
-Ian
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