IA64, PPC system call path audit patches
Peter Chubb
peterc at gelato.unsw.edu.au
Fri Sep 1 08:25:24 UTC 2006
You've only caught the IA64 slow path system call entries. The fast path
is highly optimised assembly language inside arch/ia64/kernel/fsys.S,
that avoids doing a trap at all.
With a modern libc, syscall_via_break is only called for a very few
system calls.
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Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au
http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia
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