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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tools/headers: Synchronize kernel ABI headers

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> wrote:

> Em Sat, May 18, 2019 at 10:42:23AM +0200, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> > Pick up the latest v5.2-to-be kernel ABI headers and synchronize them with tooling:
> >
> > - arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl => tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl # new syscalls
> > - arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h => tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h # new CPUID flags
> > - include/uapi/drm/drm.h => tools/include/uapi/drm/drm.h # new 'syncobj' DRM ABI
> > - include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h => tools/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h # new extensible DRM ABI
> > - include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h => tools/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h # new AT_RECURSIVE
> > - include/uapi/linux/fs.h => tools/include/uapi/linux/fs.h # new SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE_AND_WAIT
> > - include/uapi/linux/mount.h => tools/include/uapi/linux/mount.h # new VFS system calls: fspick, fsmount, fsconfig, fsopen, move_mount, open_tree
> > - include/uapi/linux/sched.h => tools/include/uapi/linux/sched.h # new CLONE_PIDFD
> >
> > All of these are new ABI additions with no impact on existing tooling,
>
> There is some impact in a number of them, for instance:
>
> [acme@quaco perf]$ diff -u tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
> --- tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl 2019-05-13 14:46:03.915894924 -0300
> +++ arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl 2019-05-18 10:27:04.273395657 -0300
> @@ -343,6 +343,12 @@
> 332 common statx __x64_sys_statx
> 333 common io_pgetevents __x64_sys_io_pgetevents
> 334 common rseq __x64_sys_rseq
> +335 common open_tree __x64_sys_open_tree
> +336 common move_mount __x64_sys_move_mount
> +337 common fsopen __x64_sys_fsopen
> +338 common fsconfig __x64_sys_fsconfig
> +339 common fsmount __x64_sys_fsmount
> +340 common fspick __x64_sys_fspick
> # don't use numbers 387 through 423, add new calls after the last
> # 'common' entry
> 424 common pidfd_send_signal __x64_sys_pidfd_send_signal
> [acme@quaco perf]$
>
> These will enable 'perf trace' to know about these syscalls, i.e. we
> will be able to say:
>
> perf trace -e fs*
>
> And have it trace just those fsopen, fsconfig, fsmount and fspick
> syscalls (or any other that starts with fs, that is). Looking at this
> makes one think if we should have a new syscall group like we have here:
>
> [acme@quaco perf]$ ls -la tools/perf/trace/strace/groups/
> total 16
> drwxrwxr-x. 2 acme acme 4096 May 13 14:46 .
> drwxrwxr-x. 3 acme acme 4096 Apr 10 10:20 ..
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 acme acme 136 May 13 14:46 file
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 acme acme 584 May 13 14:46 string
> [acme@quaco perf]$
>
> One for file oriented syscalls, the other for syscalls that operate on
> strings (pathnames, etc).

Good point, I missed that!

> So I'll check that tools/perf/trace/beauty/drm_ioctl.sh is sane wrt any
> new additions to that header, ditto for the other headers, I'll go thru
> them soon.

Thanks!

Ingo

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