Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:23:30 -0500 | From | Jason Baron <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] New utility: 'trace' |
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 01:32:08PM +1100, Ian Munsie wrote: > Hi Jason, > > I'm adding Avantika to the CC list as she recently contacted me > regarding syscall tracepoints on PowerPC. > > Excerpts from Jason Baron's message of Fri Nov 19 02:11:42 +1100 2010: > > I was wondering what the status of those patches were...last I remember > > they looked pretty good to me...I'd be more than happy to help review > > those. > > Yeah there isn't much left to do on them - the main delay has just been > finding some time to work on them. > > I did want to revisit the naming of the events and the subtle > differences for syscalls with a single implementation for both the > native and compat versions versus those that have separate > implementations - I don't want userspace to have to care about that > distinction. > > I recall there were a few comments on some of your patches in the series > - if I rebase the patches on the current tip tree and publish the tree > somewhere would you be willing to take a look at those? >
sure. the remaining issue was to combine the enabled/disabled flags into the 'int nb_args' field since we are only using 3 bits of it. that shouldn't be too bad...
thanks,
-Jason
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