diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index a3d9907bbfa9..56cc00c3bbaf 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 7770841e63730d62928b0879498064e9614b2ce0
+refs/heads/master: eeac19a7efa150231e4a6bb110d6f27500bcc8ce
diff --git a/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
index 8e9663413b7f..afb31d72618d 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -500,6 +500,22 @@ struct syscall_metadata *syscall_nr_to_meta(int nr)
 	return syscalls_metadata[nr];
 }
 
+int syscall_name_to_nr(char *name)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	if (!syscalls_metadata)
+		return -1;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < FTRACE_SYSCALL_MAX; i++) {
+		if (syscalls_metadata[i]) {
+			if (!strcmp(syscalls_metadata[i]->name, name))
+				return i;
+		}
+	}
+	return -1;
+}
+
 void arch_init_ftrace_syscalls(void)
 {
 	int i;