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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com>
Cc: <systemtap@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: use sregs for syscall probe registers
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7gqm0cf.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5cb0cb1f.ROdjA4uUKaH5hT/r%fllinden@amazon.com> (Frank van der	Linden's message of "Fri, 12 Apr 2019 17:30:07 +0000")


Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com> writes:

> Since syscall wrappers are now active on arm64 (4.19+), arguments need to
> be retrieved the right way, by checking if there is a saved set of system
> call registers, and using them if there are.  [...]

This looks good to me.


> +	if (STAP_ARG_argnum < 1 || STAP_ARG_argnum > 8) {
> +		snprintf(CONTEXT->error_buffer, sizeof(CONTEXT->error_buffer),
> +				"Cannot access arg(%lld)",
> +				(long long)STAP_ARG_argnum);
> +		CONTEXT->last_error = CONTEXT->error_buffer;
> +		return;
> +	}

By the way, as listed in [man stap], there are some helper macros to
make this a little more compact:

        if (...) { 
            STAP_ERROR("foo bar %lld", (long long)foo);
        }

- FChE

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-16 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-12 17:30 Frank van der Linden
2019-04-15 21:32 ` William Cohen
2019-04-15 21:40   ` van der Linden, Frank
2019-04-16 15:33 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]

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