linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] trace: Include <asm/asm-offsets.h> in trace

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Message-ID: <4EC58FF1.109@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:51:29 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] trace: Include <asm/asm-offsets.h> in trace_syscalls.c

On 11/17/2011 02:42 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 14:37 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
>>
>> Include <asm/asm-offsets.h> into trace_syscalls.c, to allow for
>> NR_syscalls to be automatically generated.
> 
> Did this cause some sort of bug before? What was the issue before this
> patch?
> 

(Of course, there are architectures on which the syscall set isn't a
dense set of numbers in the range [0, NR_syscalls), but that's another
issue entirely.)

	-hpa

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