[PATCH 3/4] ftrace syscalls: Allow arch specific syscall symbol matching

2010-05-13 Thread Ian Munsie
From: Ian Munsie imun...@au1.ibm.com Some architectures have unusual symbol names and the generic code to match the symbol name with the function name for the syscall metadata will fail. For example, symbols on PPC64 start with a period and the generic code will fail to match them. This patch

Re: [PATCH 3/4] ftrace syscalls: Allow arch specific syscall symbol matching

2010-05-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:43 +1000, Ian Munsie wrote: From: Ian Munsie imun...@au1.ibm.com Some architectures have unusual symbol names and the generic code to match the symbol name with the function name for the syscall metadata will fail. For example, symbols on PPC64 start with a period

Re: [PATCH 3/4] ftrace syscalls: Allow arch specific syscall symbol matching

2010-05-13 Thread Ian Munsie
Excerpts from Benjamin Herrenschmidt's message of Fri May 14 09:54:56 +1000 2010: On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:43 +1000, Ian Munsie wrote: From: Ian Munsie imun...@au1.ibm.com Some architectures have unusual symbol names and the generic code to match the symbol name with the function name