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| author | Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) | 2016-11-07 16:26:37 -0500 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt (VMware) | 2019-04-05 09:26:43 -0400 |
| commit | b35f549df1d7520d37ba1e6d4a8d4df6bd52d136 (patch) | |
| tree | b7e544da953806a2f4d9b2d0aeb167d0baad3955 /lib/syscall.c | |
| 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 'lib/syscall.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/syscall.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/syscall.c b/lib/syscall.c index e8467e17b9a2..fb328e7ccb08 100644 --- a/lib/syscall.c +++ b/lib/syscall.c @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ static int collect_syscall(struct task_struct *target, struct syscall_info *info info->data.nr = syscall_get_nr(target, regs); if (info->data.nr != -1L) - syscall_get_arguments(target, regs, 0, 6, + syscall_get_arguments(target, regs, (unsigned long *)&info->data.args[0]); put_task_stack(target); |