Re: tracepoint maintainance models

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Sep 18 2006 - 11:26:31 EST


Ar Llu, 2006-09-18 am 17:02 +0200, ysgrifennodd Ingo Molnar:
> also, there should be only a single switch for markups: either all of
> them are compiled in or none of them. That simplifies the support
> picture and gets rid of some ugly #ifdefs. Distro kernels will likely
> enable all of thems, so there will be nice uniformity all across.

I think your implementation is questionable if it causes any kind of
jumps and conditions, even marked unlikely. Just put the needed data in
a seperate section which can be used by the debugging tools. No need to
actually mess with the code for the usual cases.

Alan

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