[PATCH 1/2] Add the .call modifier to syscall entry probes.

[Josh Stone]

On 10/10/2009 03:14 AM, Przemyslaw Pawelczyk wrote:
> Inline functions do not have an indentifiable return point and require
> kernel built using VTA-enabled gcc to get tracking of variables. OTOH
> syscall functions are very rarely inlined (depending on the compiler
> mood), therefore filtering probes to include only non-inlined functions
> ensures consistent behavior between different kernels.
>
> This removes the problem of inaccessible variables in inlined syscalls
> that is described in comments #6-9 to PR5890 and gives us the status quo
> w.r.t. syscall probing, because before the commit solving PR10572
> (b7478964) inline instances were masked anyway by non-inline ones.

This is now committed - thanks!

Josh