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tracing/syscalls: Make arch_syscall_addr weak
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Some architectures use non-trivial system call tables and will not work
with the generic arch_syscall_addr code. For example, PowerPC64 uses a
table of twin long longs.

This patch makes the generic arch_syscall_addr weak to allow
architectures with non-trivial system call tables to override it.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1296703645-18718-4-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Ian Munsie authored and Steven Rostedt committed Feb 8, 2011
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
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Expand Up @@ -247,6 +247,9 @@ You need very few things to get the syscalls tracing in an arch.
- 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.
- If the system call table on this arch is more complicated than a simple array
of addresses of the system calls, implement an arch_syscall_addr to return
the address of a given system call.
- Tag this arch as HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS.


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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
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Expand Up @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ int init_syscall_trace(struct ftrace_event_call *call)
return id;
}

unsigned long __init arch_syscall_addr(int nr)
unsigned long __init __weak arch_syscall_addr(int nr)
{
return (unsigned long)sys_call_table[nr];
}
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