SystemTap for Android - patchset

[Alexander Lochmann]

On 07.07.2016 18:06, David Smith wrote:
> On 07/06/2016 07:29 AM, Alexander Lochmann wrote:
>> So. Let me start.
>> First of all, I extracted the patches properly, and attached the files.
>> (Btw, I found a third bug. :) )
>> FYI, I just fixed the bugs for the kernel versions I'm dealing with,
>> because I don't know which other versions are affected as well.
> 
> Looking at your 2nd patch, '[PATCH 2/3] The syscall defines were not
> compatible with older kernels, namely 3.0.x', this bit doesn't seem
> correct at all:
> 
> ====
> diff --git a/runtime/linux/autoconf-asm-syscall.c
> b/runtime/linux/autoconf-asm-syscall.c
> index bf7a273..6bfcd55 100644
> --- a/runtime/linux/autoconf-asm-syscall.c
> +++ b/runtime/linux/autoconf-asm-syscall.c
> @@ -1,2 +1,8 @@
> +#include <linux/version.h>
> +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE <= KERNEL_VERSION(3,0,200) && LINUX_VERSION_CODE
>> = KERNEL_VERSION(3,0,0)
> +#include <asm/unistd.h>
> +#include <linux/sched.h>
> +#include <asm-generic/syscall.h>
> +#else
>  #include <asm/syscall.h>
> -
> +#endif
> ====
> 
> Including <asm-generic/syscall.h> is highly suspicious. Did you try to
> include <asm/syscall.h> and get errors? If so, we can work to fix those
> errors. Not including your arch's real syscall.h file will cause errors
> down the road.
> 
An arch-specific syscall.h does not exist for arm. :(
The kernel tree for both the Galaxy Nexus (maguro) and the Nexus 4 do
not have a syscall.h (path: arch/arm/include/asm/syscall.h does not exist).

- Alex


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