Re: [PATCH] trace_syscalls: cleanup for syscalls_metadata

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 20:39 +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> NR_syscalls is compile-time constant.

The question is, is that always true on all archs, and will that always
be true?

Unless we can guarantee somewhere that NR_syscalls must be constant on
all archs, we can't make this change. If it is guaranteed, then sure,
this patch is fine.

> so we allocates memory for syscalls_metadata at compile-time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve


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