From: Romeo Cane Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 14:41:39 +0000 (+0100) Subject: powerpc: Fix sys_call_table declaration to enable syscall tracing X-Git-Tag: v3.18-rc2~23^2~21 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1028ccf560b97adbf272381a61a67e17d44d1054;p=karo-tx-linux.git powerpc: Fix sys_call_table declaration to enable syscall tracing Declaring sys_call_table as a pointer causes the compiler to generate the wrong lookup code in arch_syscall_addr(). : lis r9,-16384 rlwinm r3,r3,2,0,29 - lwz r11,30640(r9) - lwzx r3,r11,r3 + addi r9,r9,30640 + lwzx r3,r9,r3 blr The actual sys_call_table symbol, declared in assembler, is an array. If we lie about that to the compiler we get the wrong code generated, as above. This definition seems only to be used by the syscall tracing code in kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c. With this patch I can successfully use the syscall tracepoints: bash-3815 [002] .... 333.239082: sys_write -> 0x2 bash-3815 [002] .... 333.239087: sys_dup2(oldfd: a, newfd: 1) bash-3815 [002] .... 333.239088: sys_dup2 -> 0x1 bash-3815 [002] .... 333.239092: sys_fcntl(fd: a, cmd: 1, arg: 0) bash-3815 [002] .... 333.239093: sys_fcntl -> 0x1 bash-3815 [002] .... 333.239094: sys_close(fd: a) bash-3815 [002] .... 333.239094: sys_close -> 0x0 Signed-off-by: Romeo Cane Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h index b54b2add07be..528ba9d8eed5 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ /* ftrace syscalls requires exporting the sys_call_table */ #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS -extern const unsigned long *sys_call_table; +extern const unsigned long sys_call_table[]; #endif /* CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS */ static inline long syscall_get_nr(struct task_struct *task,