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Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] linux-user: Extend strace support to enable argument


From: Laurent Vivier
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] linux-user: Extend strace support to enable argument printing after syscall execution
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:33:18 +0200
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Le 08/06/2020 à 18:43, Filip Bozuta a écrit :
> From: Filip Bozuta <Filip.Bozuta@syrmia.com>
> 
>     Structure "struct syscallname" in file "strace.c" is used for "-strace"
>     to print arguments and return values of syscalls. The last field of
>     this structure "result" represents the calling function that prints the
>     return values. This field was extended in this patch so that this 
> functions
>     takes all syscalls arguments beside the return value. In this way, it 
> enables
>     "-strace" to print arguments of syscalls that have changed after the 
> syscall
>     execution. This extension will be useful as there are many syscalls that
>     return values inside their arguments (i.e. listxattr() that returns the 
> list
>     of extended attributes inside the "list" argument).
> 
> Implementation notes:
> 
>     Since there are already three existing "print_syscall_ret*" functions 
> inside
>     "strace.c" ("print_syscall_ret_addr()", "print_syscall_ret_adjtimex()",
>     "print_syscall_ret_newselect()"), they were changed to have all syscall 
> arguments
>     beside the return value. This was done so that these functions don't 
> cause build
>     errors (even though syscall arguments are not used in these functions).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Filip Bozuta <Filip.Bozuta@syrmia.com>
> ---
>  linux-user/qemu.h    |  4 +++-
>  linux-user/strace.c  | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
>  linux-user/syscall.c |  2 +-
>  3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>




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