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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [RFC] tracehook: Hook in syscall tracing markers.
Hi -

> At kernel summit, the idea that syscall tracing was generally desirable
> for tracing was mentioned several times, as was the argument that kernel
> developers aren't placing markers in meaningful locations. This is a
> simple patch to try and do that for the syscall case.[...]

One problem with this is that a separate mechanism would be needed to
activate these tracehook_report_* calls in the first place: the
management of the per-task TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE flag. This is one of the
things the utrace API makes straightforward, in which case its own
native syscall reporting callbacks can be used directly.

- FChE


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