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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-12-09 17:14:38 +1100 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-12-09 17:14:38 +1100 |
| commit | bcd6acd51f3d4d1ada201e9bc5c40a31d6d80c71 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f6dffd2d3e4dd67355a224de7e7a960335a92fd /Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt | |
| parent | 11c34c7deaeeebcee342cbc35e1bb2a6711b2431 (diff) | |
| parent | 3ff6a468b45b5dfeb0e903e56f4eb27d34b2437c (diff) | |
Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
Conflicts:
include/linux/kvm.h
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt index 7003e10f10f..641a1ef2a7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt @@ -213,10 +213,19 @@ If you can't trace NMI functions, then skip this option. <details to be filled> -HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS +HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS --------------------- -<details to be filled> +You need very few things to get the syscalls tracing in an arch. + +- Have a NR_syscalls variable in <asm/unistd.h> that provides the number + of syscalls supported by the arch. +- Implement arch_syscall_addr() that resolves a syscall address from a + syscall number. +- Support the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT thread flags +- Put the trace_sys_enter() and trace_sys_exit() tracepoints calls from ptrace + in the ptrace syscalls tracing path. +- Tag this arch as HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS. HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD |