syscalls: Remove start and number from syscall_get_arguments() args

At Linux Plumbers, Andy Lutomirski approached me and pointed out that the
function call syscall_get_arguments() implemented in x86 was horribly
written and not optimized for the standard case of passing in 0 and 6 for
the starting index and the number of system calls to get. When looking at
all the users of this function, I discovered that all instances pass in only
0 and 6 for these arguments. Instead of having this function handle
different cases that are never used, simply rewrite it to return the first 6
arguments of a system call.

This should help out the performance of tracing system calls by ptrace,
ftrace and perf.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161107213233.754809394@goodmis.org

Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com>
Cc: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> # MIPS parts
Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> # For xtensa changes
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> # For the arm64 bits
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> # for x86
Reviewed-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/syscall.h b/include/asm-generic/syscall.h
index 0c938a4354f6..269e9412ef42 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/syscall.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/syscall.h
@@ -105,21 +105,16 @@ void syscall_set_return_value(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
  * syscall_get_arguments - extract system call parameter values
  * @task:	task of interest, must be blocked
  * @regs:	task_pt_regs() of @task
- * @i:		argument index [0,5]
- * @n:		number of arguments; n+i must be [1,6].
  * @args:	array filled with argument values
  *
- * Fetches @n arguments to the system call starting with the @i'th argument
- * (from 0 through 5).  Argument @i is stored in @args[0], and so on.
- * An arch inline version is probably optimal when @i and @n are constants.
+ * Fetches 6 arguments to the system call.  First argument is stored in
+*  @args[0], and so on.
  *
  * It's only valid to call this when @task is stopped for tracing on
  * entry to a system call, due to %TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE or %TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT.
- * It's invalid to call this with @i + @n > 6; we only support system calls
- * taking up to 6 arguments.
  */
 void syscall_get_arguments(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
-			   unsigned int i, unsigned int n, unsigned long *args);
+			   unsigned long *args);
 
 /**
  * syscall_set_arguments - change system call parameter value