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author | Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2016-11-07 16:26:37 -0500 |
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committer | Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2019-04-05 09:26:43 -0400 |
commit | b35f549df1d7520d37ba1e6d4a8d4df6bd52d136 (patch) | |
tree | b7e544da953806a2f4d9b2d0aeb167d0baad3955 /include | |
parent | ed3bb007021b9bddb90afae28a19f08ed8890add (diff) | |
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syscalls: Remove start and number from syscall_get_arguments() args
At Linux Plumbers, Andy Lutomirski approached me and pointed out that the
function call syscall_get_arguments() implemented in x86 was horribly
written and not optimized for the standard case of passing in 0 and 6 for
the starting index and the number of system calls to get. When looking at
all the users of this function, I discovered that all instances pass in only
0 and 6 for these arguments. Instead of having this function handle
different cases that are never used, simply rewrite it to return the first 6
arguments of a system call.
This should help out the performance of tracing system calls by ptrace,
ftrace and perf.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161107213233.754809394@goodmis.org
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com>
Cc: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> # MIPS parts
Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> # For xtensa changes
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> # For the arm64 bits
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> # for x86
Reviewed-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/syscall.h | 11 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/trace/events/syscalls.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/syscall.h b/include/asm-generic/syscall.h index 0c938a4354f6..269e9412ef42 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/syscall.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/syscall.h @@ -105,21 +105,16 @@ void syscall_set_return_value(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs, * syscall_get_arguments - extract system call parameter values * @task: task of interest, must be blocked * @regs: task_pt_regs() of @task - * @i: argument index [0,5] - * @n: number of arguments; n+i must be [1,6]. * @args: array filled with argument values * - * Fetches @n arguments to the system call starting with the @i'th argument - * (from 0 through 5). Argument @i is stored in @args[0], and so on. - * An arch inline version is probably optimal when @i and @n are constants. + * Fetches 6 arguments to the system call. First argument is stored in +* @args[0], and so on. * * It's only valid to call this when @task is stopped for tracing on * entry to a system call, due to %TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE or %TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT. - * It's invalid to call this with @i + @n > 6; we only support system calls - * taking up to 6 arguments. */ void syscall_get_arguments(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs, - unsigned int i, unsigned int n, unsigned long *args); + unsigned long *args); /** * syscall_set_arguments - change system call parameter value diff --git a/include/trace/events/syscalls.h b/include/trace/events/syscalls.h index 44a3259ed4a5..b6e0cbc2c71f 100644 --- a/include/trace/events/syscalls.h +++ b/include/trace/events/syscalls.h @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT_FN(sys_enter, TP_fast_assign( __entry->id = id; - syscall_get_arguments(current, regs, 0, 6, __entry->args); + syscall_get_arguments(current, regs, __entry->args); ), TP_printk("NR %ld (%lx, %lx, %lx, %lx, %lx, %lx)", |