System Call Probes

System call entry and exit probes identify the system operations explicitly requested by user code.

The syscall_start probe marks the start of a system call, and records the system call number. The probe does not capture system call arguments, because this is fairly expensive. (Some of this information can be captured by interposing on the C library entry points at the user level.) The syscall_start probe also implicitly marks the current thread as entering the system state.

The syscall_end probe marks the end of a system call, and records the two return values of the call, as well as the errno value. The syscall_end probe also implicitly marks the current thread as entering the user state.

System call implementation at this level can change from release to release. Do not rely on a consistent mapping of system calls to numbers.