linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h, branch linux-3.12.y

powerpc: Fix sys_call_table declaration to enable syscall tracing

2015-04-09T12:13:46+00:00

commit 1028ccf560b97adbf272381a61a67e17d44d1054 upstream.

Declaring sys_call_table as a pointer causes the compiler to generate
the wrong lookup code in arch_syscall_addr().

     :
        lis     r9,-16384
        rlwinm  r3,r3,2,0,29
  -     lwz     r11,30640(r9)
  -     lwzx    r3,r11,r3
  +     addi    r9,r9,30640
  +     lwzx    r3,r9,r3
        blr

The actual sys_call_table symbol, declared in assembler, is an
array. If we lie about that to the compiler we get the wrong code
generated, as above.

This definition seems only to be used by the syscall tracing code in
kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c. With this patch I can successfully use
the syscall tracepoints:

  bash-3815  [002] ....   333.239082: sys_write -> 0x2
  bash-3815  [002] ....   333.239087: sys_dup2(oldfd: a, newfd: 1)
  bash-3815  [002] ....   333.239088: sys_dup2 -> 0x1
  bash-3815  [002] ....   333.239092: sys_fcntl(fd: a, cmd: 1, arg: 0)
  bash-3815  [002] ....   333.239093: sys_fcntl -> 0x1
  bash-3815  [002] ....   333.239094: sys_close(fd: a)
  bash-3815  [002] ....   333.239094: sys_close -> 0x0

Signed-off-by: Romeo Cane 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

powerpc/ftrace: Implement raw syscall tracepoints on PowerPC

2011-05-26T03:38:57+00:00

This patch implements the raw syscall tracepoints on PowerPC and exports
them for ftrace syscalls to use.

To minimise reworking existing code, I slightly re-ordered the thread
info flags such that the new TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT bit would still fit
within the 16 bits of the andi. instruction's UI field. The instructions
in question are in /arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_{32,64}.S to and the
_TIF_SYSCALL_T_OR_A with the thread flags to see if system call tracing
is enabled.

In the case of 64bit PowerPC, arch_syscall_addr and
arch_syscall_match_sym_name are overridden to allow ftrace syscalls to
work given the unusual system call table structure and symbol names that
start with a period.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Use correct ccr bit for syscall error status

2010-03-19T05:38:16+00:00

The powerpc implementations of syscall_get_error and
syscall_set_return_value should use CCR0:S0 (0x10000000) for testing
and setting syscall error status.  Fortunately these APIs don't seem
to be used at the moment.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asm

2008-08-04T02:02:00+00:00

from include/asm-powerpc.  This is the result of a

mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm
git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm

Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places
where  was being used explicitly.  Of the latter only
one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras