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| author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-09-19 07:14:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-10-14 09:54:38 +0200 |
| commit | 459c6d15a0c52bae43842ff2cd0dd41aa7de9b7f (patch) | |
| tree | 3eba2d9a08ae812924841c6a805ce3d58f0a7699 /Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt | |
| parent | tracing: Move syscalls metadata handling from arch to core (diff) | |
| download | linux-459c6d15a0c52bae43842ff2cd0dd41aa7de9b7f.tar.xz linux-459c6d15a0c52bae43842ff2cd0dd41aa7de9b7f.zip | |
tracing: Document HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS needs
Document the arch needed requirements to get the support for syscalls
tracing.
v2: HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS have been changed to HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
recently. Update this config name in the documentation then.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt index 7003e10f10f5..641a1ef2a7ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt @@ -213,10 +213,19 @@ If you can't trace NMI functions, then skip this option. <details to be filled> -HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS +HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS --------------------- -<details to be filled> +You need very few things to get the syscalls tracing in an arch. + +- Have a NR_syscalls variable in <asm/unistd.h> that provides the number + of syscalls supported by the arch. +- Implement arch_syscall_addr() that resolves a syscall address from a + syscall number. +- Support the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT thread flags +- Put the trace_sys_enter() and trace_sys_exit() tracepoints calls from ptrace + in the ptrace syscalls tracing path. +- Tag this arch as HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS. HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD |