tracing: Map syscall name to number

Add a new function to support translating a syscall name to number at
runtime.
This allows the syscall event tracer to map syscall names to number.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
index 8e9663413b7f..afb31d72618d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -500,6 +500,22 @@ struct syscall_metadata *syscall_nr_to_meta(int nr)
         return syscalls_metadata[nr];
 }
 
+int syscall_name_to_nr(char *name)
+{
+        int i;
+
+        if (!syscalls_metadata)
+                return -1;
+
+        for (i = 0; i < FTRACE_SYSCALL_MAX; i++) {
+                if (syscalls_metadata[i]) {
+                        if (!strcmp(syscalls_metadata[i]->name, name))
+                                return i;
+                }
+        }
+        return -1;
+}
+
 void arch_init_ftrace_syscalls(void)
 {
         int i;