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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt')
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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 |