How to exclude ipc calls

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 01:51:28PM +0100, Alexander Kriegisch wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:56:51PM +0400, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
[...]
> > There is something wrong with strace on your platform, otherwise you
> > would never see this ipc() syscall.  I'm not an expert with linux
> > mips zoo, but it looks like ipc() syscall multiplexer is actually in
> > use in your system while strace expects separate IPC syscalls.  I can
> > suggest a workaround, but it won't implement proper IPC subcall
> > decoding on your platform unless somebody with better knowledge about
> > it will come up with a patch.
> > 
> > The workaround is to teach strace that ipc() is a IPC syscall:
> > $ sed -i '/"ipc"/ s/0,/TI,/' linux/mips/syscallent.h
> > 
> > With this change applied, strace -e trace='!ipc' will hide ipc() syscall.
> 
> Maybe there is something wrong with strace on my platform, I have no
> idea and am not the author of the tool. But I can confirm that your
> latest change
> http://strace.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=strace/strace;a=commit;h=454dcd458aa0f8ebe6838c1835d779739a9cca77
> fixes the problem in my case.
> 
> May I know if you intend to keep the change in the code base?

Yes, I do.

> I mean, is
> it really just a workaround or does it solve a real problem? I guess it
> does, because you committed the change for several (all?) platforms.

Assuming that ipc() is a IPC syscall, it is a correct change that fixes
your problem.  However,  strace still lacks IPC subcall decoding on mips,
so the change is far from complete.


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