tracing: Document HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS needs

Document the arch needed requirements to get the support for syscalls
tracing.

v2: HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS have been changed to HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
    recently. Update this config name in the documentation then.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Frederic Weisbecker 2009-09-19 07:14:15 +02:00
parent c44fc77084
commit 459c6d15a0
1 changed files with 11 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -213,10 +213,19 @@ If you can't trace NMI functions, then skip this option.
<details to be filled>
HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
---------------------
<details to be filled>
You need very few things to get the syscalls tracing in an arch.
- Have a NR_syscalls variable in <asm/unistd.h> that provides the number
of syscalls supported by the arch.
- Implement arch_syscall_addr() that resolves a syscall address from a
syscall number.
- Support the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT thread flags
- Put the trace_sys_enter() and trace_sys_exit() tracepoints calls from ptrace
in the ptrace syscalls tracing path.
- Tag this arch as HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS.
HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD