Re: [PATCH 4/4] samples/bpf: Fix tracex5 to work with MIPS syscalls.

[Daniel Borkmann]

On 06/14/2017 01:49 AM, David Daney wrote:
> There are two problems:
>
> 1) In MIPS the __NR_* macros expand to an expression, this causes the
>     sections of the object file to be named like:
>
>    .
>    .
>    .
>    [ 5] kprobe/(5000 + 1) PROGBITS        0000000000000000 000160 ...
>    [ 6] kprobe/(5000 + 0) PROGBITS        0000000000000000 000258 ...
>    [ 7] kprobe/(5000 + 9) PROGBITS        0000000000000000 000348 ...
>    .
>    .
>    .
>
> The fix here is to use the "asm_offsets" trick to evaluate the macros
> in the C compiler and generate a header file with a usable form of the
> macros.
>
> 2) MIPS syscall numbers start at 5000, so we need a bigger map to hold
> the sub-programs.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>