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Message-ID: <Y3vKXoPAyNPi8BZr@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:58:38 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] perf trace: Cleanup and remove unused bpf map

Em Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 09:05:14AM -0800, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 11:52 PM Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org> wrote:
> >
> > The initial purpose of this series is to cleanup the unused bpf map
> > 'syscalls' in the eBPF program augmented_raw_syscalls and perf trace
> > tool.  The relality is perf trace tool initializes system call table
> > based on map 'syscalls' and wrongly returns syscall pointer for
> > non-existed system calls based on the previous initialization.
> >
> > So the patch set firstly addresses the issue for handling non-existed
> > system calls, then it removes unused local variable and bpf map in
> > augmented_raw_syscalls.c.
> >
> > Patch 01 is a minor refactoring to use macro to replace number, patch 02
> > is to return error if a system call doesn't exist, especially when we
> > cannot find corresponding trace point in sysfs node, patch 03 is to fix
> > the issue that trace__syscall_info() returns a syscall pointer even the
> > system call doesn't exist, the corrected result is to always return NULL
> > pointer for non-existed system call.
> >
> > The last two patches remove the unused local variable and bpf map
> > 'syscalls'.
> >
> > This patch set has been tested with mainline kernel on Arm64 Ampere
> > Altra platform.
> >
> > Leo Yan (5):
> >   perf trace: Use macro RAW_SYSCALL_ARGS_NUM to replace number
> >   perf trace: Return error if a system call doesn't exist
> >   perf trace: Handle failure when trace point folder is missed
> >   perf augmented_raw_syscalls: Remove unused variable 'syscall'
> >   perf trace: Remove unused bpf map 'syscalls'
> 
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo

 
> Thanks,
> Ian
> 
> >  tools/perf/builtin-trace.c                    | 131 +++---------------
> >  .../examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c     |  18 ---
> >  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.34.1
> >

-- 

- Arnaldo

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