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    On Friday 04 March 2011 18:12, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:
    > >
    > > Here's a typical sequence of operations strace is doing:
    > >
    > > wait4(-1, [{WIFSTOPPED(s) && WSTOPSIG(s) == SIGTRAP}], __WALL, NULL) = 10445
    > > ptrace(PTRACE_GETSIGINFO, 10445, 0, {si_signo=SIGTRAP, si_code=0x5,
    > > si_pid=10445, si_uid=0, si_value={int=0, ptr=0}}) = 0
    > > ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER, 10445, 8*ORIG_RAX, [0x36]) = 0
    > > ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER, 10445, 8*CS, [0x23]) = 0
    > > ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER, 10445, 8*RAX, [0xffffffffffffffda]) = 0
    > > ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER, 10445, 8*RBX, [0x1]) = 0
    > > ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER, 10445, 8*RCX, [0x5401]) = 0
    > > ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER, 10445, 8*RDX, [0xffb83f10]) = 0
    > > ptrace(PTRACE_SYSCALL, 10445, 0x1, SIG_0) = 0
    > >
    > > IOW: strace wastes a lot of time just transiting to the kernel and back
    > > with simple syscalls to get the information.
    > >
    > > What would help here is a "vectorized" waitpid operation
    > > which retrieves much more information in one go:
    > >
    > > waitpid_vec(int max_results, int status_vector[], siginfo_t
    > > si_vector[], struct pt_regs reg_vector[])
    >
    > No. Start off with what we already have: make ptrace use
    > "PTRACE_GETREGSET" instead of PTRACE_PEEKUSER.
    >
    > That should get the whole "user_regs_struct" in one single system call.

    Aye. That's the idea: get more info in one go.

    I bet a part of the rationale for PTRACE_GETREGSET
    was to get not one register per syscall, but all of them.

    We have more of these:

    readv/writev

    Get not one signal, but many of them (signalfd).

    Get not one task's wait notification, but many of them,
    and also get accompanying siginfo etc (waitpidv?
    or better, waitfd?)

    --
    vda


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