fix: Remove unnecessary check for syscall wrapper in sys_enter tracepoint #4236
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…oint The sys_enter raw tracepoint always provides direct access to pt_regs, regardless of the architecture's use of a syscall wrapper. This commit removes the redundant conditional check and simplifies the logic for extracting system call arguments.
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1. Explain what the PR does
The sys_enter raw tracepoint always provides direct access to pt_regs, regardless of the architecture's use of a syscall wrapper. This commit removes the redundant conditional check and simplifies the logic for extracting system call arguments.
2. Explain how to test it
3. Other comments
See the code here being executed before the call to the sys_enter tracepoint:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry/entry_64_fred.S#L21