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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-05 09:53:36 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-05 09:53:36 -0800
commit96fa2b508d2d3fe040cf4ef2fffb955f0a537ea1 (patch)
tree3cec6d72a450735fe6b8ed996c7399f57c05a5cb /Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
parent7a797cdcca2b3c0031e580203f18d6c9483aaec5 (diff)
parentb8007ef7422270864eae523cb38d7522a53a94d3 (diff)
Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (40 commits) tracing: Separate raw syscall from syscall tracer ring-buffer-benchmark: Add parameters to set produce/consumer priorities tracing, function tracer: Clean up strstrip() usage ring-buffer benchmark: Run producer/consumer threads at nice +19 tracing: Remove the stale include/trace/power.h tracing: Only print objcopy version warning once from recordmcount tracing: Prevent build warning: 'ftrace_graph_buf' defined but not used ring-buffer: Move access to commit_page up into function used tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_local ring-buffer: Add multiple iterations between benchmark timestamps kprobes: Sanitize struct kretprobe_instance allocations tracing: Fix to use __always_unused attribute compiler: Introduce __always_unused tracing: Exit with error if a weak function is used in recordmcount.pl tracing: Move conditional into update_funcs() in recordmcount.pl tracing: Add regex for weak functions in recordmcount.pl tracing: Move mcount section search to front of loop in recordmcount.pl tracing: Fix objcopy revision check in recordmcount.pl tracing: Check absolute path of input file in recordmcount.pl tracing: Correct the check for number of arguments in recordmcount.pl ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
index 7003e10f10f..641a1ef2a7f 100644
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+++ 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