This field can be used by the decode functions of a syscall. The main
usecase for now is to allow storing the driver name for drm devices
across the lifetime of a trace control block. This allows us to do the
driver identification once and reuse the information in all the decode
stages of the ioctl.
* defs.h: Add private data field in struct tcb
Signed-off-by: Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.jakobs...@linux.intel.com>
---
defs.h | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/defs.h b/defs.h
index c02f810..5b0670e 100644
--- a/defs.h
+++ b/defs.h
@@ -266,6 +266,13 @@ struct tcb {
int u_error; /* Error code */
long scno; /* System call number */
long u_arg[MAX_ARGS]; /* System call arguments */
+
+ /*
+ * Private data for the decoding functions of the syscall. TCB core does
+ * _not_ handle allocation / deallocation of this data.
+ */
+ void *priv_data;
+
#if defined(LINUX_MIPSN32) || defined(X32)
long long ext_arg[MAX_ARGS];
long long u_lrval; /* long long return value */
--
2.1.4
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