Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] ftrace syscalls: Allow arch specific syscall symbol matching | From | Ian Munsie <> | Date | Fri, 14 May 2010 12:06:41 +1000 |
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Excerpts from Benjamin Herrenschmidt's message of Fri May 14 09:54:56 +1000 2010: > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:43 +1000, Ian Munsie wrote: > > From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> > > > > Some architectures have unusual symbol names and the generic code to > > match the symbol name with the function name for the syscall metadata > > will fail. For example, symbols on PPC64 start with a period and the > > generic code will fail to match them. > > > > This patch splits out the match logic into a standalone weak function > > that can be overridden on archs with unusual symbol names. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> > > --- > > Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> > --- > > Ian, I assume you will implement the support for the "special" ppc_* > syscalls via a subsequent patch and not a respin of this one right ? > > Cheers, > Ben.
Yes, that will be in a separate patch or two.
Cheers, -Ian
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