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    tracing/syscalls: Don't add events for unmapped syscalls · ba976970
    Ian Munsie authored
    FTRACE_SYSCALLS would create events for each and every system call, even
    if it had failed to map the system call's name with it's number. This
    resulted in a number of events being created that would not behave as
    expected.
    
    This could happen, for example, on architectures who's symbol names are
    unusual and will not match the system call name. It could also happen
    with system calls which were mapped to sys_ni_syscall.
    
    This patch changes the default system call number in the metadata to -1.
    If the system call name from the metadata is not successfully mapped to
    a system call number during boot, than the event initialisation routine
    will now return an error, preventing the event from being created.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
    LKML-Reference: <1296703645-18718-2-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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