The current syscall tracer mixes raw syscalls and real syscalls.
echo 1 > events/syscalls/enable
And we get these from the output:
(XXXX insteads " grep-20914 [001] 588211.446347" .. etc)
XXXX: sys_read(fd: 3, buf:
80609a8, count: 7000)
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 3 (3,
80609a8, 7000, a, 1000,
bfce8ef8)
XXXX: sys_read -> 0x138
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 3 = 312
XXXX: sys_read(fd: 3, buf:
8060ae0, count: 7000)
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 3 (3,
8060ae0, 7000, a, 1000,
bfce8ef8)
XXXX: sys_read -> 0x138
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 3 = 312
There are 2 drawbacks here.
A) two almost identical records are saved in ringbuffer
when a syscall enters or exits. (4 records for every syscall)
This wastes precious space in the ring buffer.
B) the lines including "sys_enter/sys_exit" produces
hardly any useful information for the output (no labels).
The user can use this method to prevent these drawbacks:
echo 1 > events/syscalls/enable
echo 0 > events/syscalls/sys_enter/enable
echo 0 > events/syscalls/sys_exit/enable
But this is not user friendly. So we separate raw syscall
from syscall tracer.
After this fix applied:
syscall tracer's output (echo 1 > events/syscalls/enable):
XXXX: sys_read(fd: 3, buf:
bfe87d88, count: 200)
XXXX: sys_read -> 0x200
XXXX: sys_fstat64(fd: 3, statbuf:
bfe87c98)
XXXX: sys_fstat64 -> 0x0
XXXX: sys_close(fd: 3)
raw syscall tracer's output (echo 1 > events/raw_syscalls/enable):
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 175 (0,
bf92bf18,
bf92bf98, 8,
b748cff4,
bf92bef8)
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 175 = 0
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 175 (2,
bf92bf98, 0, 8,
b748cff4,
bf92bef8)
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 175 = 0
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 3 (9,
bf927f9c, 4000,
b77e2518,
b77dce60,
bf92bff8)
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>