Re: powerpc/pseries: hcall_exit tracepoint retval should be signed

On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 13:03:55 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:

The hcall_exit() tracepoint has retval defined as unsigned long. That
leads to humours results like:

  bash-3686  [009] d..2   854.134094: hcall_entry: opcode=24
  bash-3686  [009] d..2   854.134095: hcall_exit: opcode=24 retval=18446744073709551609

It's normal for some hcalls to return negative values, displaying them
as unsigned isn't very helpful. So change it to signed.

  bash-3711  [001] d..2   471.691008: hcall_entry: opcode=24
  bash-3711  [001] d..2   471.691008: hcall_exit: opcode=24 retval=-7

Which can be more easily compared to H_NOT_FOUND in hvcall.h

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <redacted>

Applied to powerpc next.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/8f2133cc0e1f9718f3e2d39b7587f4

cheers