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Re: [PATCH 4/6] ftrace syscalls: Allow arch specific syscall symbol matching

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2011-02-02 14:04:50
Also in: lkml

On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 18:11 +1100, Ian Munsie wrote:

I'll answer your question here.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
index dcd6a7c..0d0e109 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
@@ -527,6 +527,15 @@ extern enum ftrace_dump_mode ftrace_dump_on_oops;
 #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
 
 unsigned long arch_syscall_addr(int nr);
+#ifndef arch_syscall_match_sym_name
+/*
+ * Only compare after the "sys" prefix. Archs that use
+ * syscall wrappers may have syscalls symbols aliases prefixed
+ * with "SyS" instead of "sys", leading to an unwanted
+ * mismatch.
+ */
+#define arch_syscall_match_sym_name(sym, name) !strcmp(sym + 3, name + 3)
Instead, you could have:

#ifndef ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_MATCH_SYM_NAME

static inline arch_syscall_match_sym_name(const char *sym, const char *name)
{
	return strcmp(sym + 3, name + 3) != 0;
}


If an arch needs to make its own, then it can simply override it by
creating its own version and defining:

#define ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_MATCH_SYM_NAME

Just like they do when an arch has its own strcmp.

This just keeps things cleaner. I like to avoid macros as they can have
nasty side effects (never would have guess that if you look at what I've
done in trace/ftrace.h ;-)

For example, if we use your call as:

arch_syscall_match_sym_name(str = sym[5], name);

That str would end up being something unexpected. I'm not condoning such
side-effect code, but it is something to think about when using macros.

-- Steve

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+#endif
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS */
 
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
index 33360b9..76bffba 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
@@ -72,13 +72,7 @@ static struct syscall_metadata *find_syscall_meta(unsigned long syscall)
 	kallsyms_lookup(syscall, NULL, NULL, NULL, str);
 
 	for ( ; start < stop; start++) {
-		/*
-		 * Only compare after the "sys" prefix. Archs that use
-		 * syscall wrappers may have syscalls symbols aliases prefixed
-		 * with "SyS" instead of "sys", leading to an unwanted
-		 * mismatch.
-		 */
-		if (start->name && !strcmp(start->name + 3, str + 3))
+		if (start->name && arch_syscall_match_sym_name(str, start->name))
 			return start;
 	}
 	return NULL;
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