Hi Masami,

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 08:55:55AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:18:59 -0500
> Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:58:49 +0000
> > Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > This looks fine to me, but I'm curious about whether this is supposed to
> > > work with compat syscalls as well, where the prefix is "__arm64_compat_".
> > > 
> > > If we broadly follow the x86 lead, we'd have:
> > > 
> > >   return (!strncmp(sym, "__arm64_", 8) && !strcmp(sym + 8, name)) ||
> > >           (!strncmp(sym, "__arm64_compat_", 15) && !strcmp(sym + 15, 
> > > name));
> > > 
> > > Do we need to handle compat (i.e. 32-bit) tasks here?
> > 
> > Only if you want to trace compat syscalls as well ;-)
> 
> Actually I thought about that, but I found below comment in
> arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h
> 
>  * Because AArch32 mode does not share the same syscall table with AArch64,
>  * tracing compat syscalls may result in reporting bogus syscalls or even
>  * hang-up, so just do not trace them.
> 
> That's why I dropped compat syscall support.

Ok! Then please add a comment to arch_syscall_match_sym_name() along those
lines, and you can add my ack:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>

Thanks,

Will

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