GSoC 2017: proposal v2

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 05:06:02PM +0300, Edgar Kaziahmedov wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 15:46:03 +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 02:35:17PM +0200, Eugene Syromiatnikov wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 04:29:36AM +0300, Edgar Kaziahmedov wrote:
> > > > https://github.com/edosedgar/xs-pkg/blob/master/proposal.txt
> > > 
> > > The other thing (besides syscallents.h) I think might useful to
> > > leverage is the current syscall filtering mechanism, so it would be
> > > possible to check out which system calls are filtered by the
> > > provided filtering expression, like "-e info=0,write,%sched -e
> > > info=!file".
> > 
> > Yet, this information is stored in syscallent.h files.
> An actually, I think I will be able to implement the basic processing of
> filtering expressions in this program.
> > 
> > > Note also that syscall number does depend on leveraged personality
> > > (and the way syscall is called on some architectures, like x86_64).
> > 
> > This is something we might want to be able to filter in the future.
> Yes, I suppose that the first release of this program will be quite
> draft and support just x86_64 and it will be time to think about some
> layer between all archs and the main layer of asinfo tool.
> > 
> > > Also I do not see much sense in separating this code into a separate
> > > executable (after leveraging both syscallents and qualify code).
> > 
> > Imagine the tool includes all syscallent.h files to support all
> > architectures.
> > 
> In the short time available, should I add this feature to proposal?

iirc, the final edition of proposal cannot be changed.

Let's just note that support of all architectures in a single binary might
be a good idea for this project.  For example, ausyscall(8) can be built
with support of many architectures enabled.


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