netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] perf augmented_raw_syscalls: Support arm64 raw syscalls

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Date:   Thu, 6 Jun 2019 10:46:24 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>
To:     Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
Cc:     Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] perf augmented_raw_syscalls: Support arm64 raw
 syscalls

Em Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 10:38:38AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 05:48:44PM +0800, Leo Yan escreveu:
> > This patch adds support for arm64 raw syscall numbers so that we can use
> > it on arm64 platform.
> > 
> > After applied this patch, we need to specify macro -D__aarch64__ or
> > -D__x86_64__ in compilation option so Clang can use the corresponding
> > syscall numbers for arm64 or x86_64 respectively, other architectures
> > will report failure when compilation.
> 
> So, please check what I have in my perf/core branch, I've completely
> removed arch specific stuff from augmented_raw_syscalls.c.
> 
> What is done now is use a map to specify what to copy, that same map
> that is used to state which syscalls should be traced.
> 
> It uses that tools/perf/arch/arm64/entry/syscalls/mksyscalltbl to figure
> out the mapping of syscall names to ids, just like is done for x86_64
> and other arches, falling back to audit-libs when that syscalltbl thing
> is not present.

Also added:

Fixes: ac96287cae08 ("perf trace: Allow specifying a set of events to add in perfconfig")

For the stable@...nel.org folks to automagically pick this.

- Arnaldo