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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 /kernel/trace | |
parent | ed3bb007021b9bddb90afae28a19f08ed8890add (diff) |
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 'kernel/trace')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c index e9f5bbbad6d9..fa8fbff736d6 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ static void ftrace_syscall_enter(void *data, struct pt_regs *regs, long id) entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event); entry->nr = syscall_nr; - syscall_get_arguments(current, regs, 0, 6, args); + syscall_get_arguments(current, regs, args); memcpy(entry->args, args, sizeof(unsigned long) * sys_data->nb_args); event_trigger_unlock_commit(trace_file, buffer, event, entry, @@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ static void perf_syscall_enter(void *ignore, struct pt_regs *regs, long id) return; rec->nr = syscall_nr; - syscall_get_arguments(current, regs, 0, 6, args); + syscall_get_arguments(current, regs, args); memcpy(&rec->args, args, sizeof(unsigned long) * sys_data->nb_args); if ((valid_prog_array && |