Re: tracepoint maintainance models

From: Frank Ch. Eigler
Date: Mon Sep 18 2006 - 11:51:59 EST


Hi -

alan wrote:

> 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.

Trouble is that it is specifically the *unusual* cases that need
compiler assistance via static markers, otherwise we'd manage with
just k/djprobes & debuginfo type efforts.

- FChE

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