Re: [PATCH 2/2] Markers Implementation for Preempt RCU Boost Tracing

From: Frank Ch. Eigler
Date: Wed Jan 02 2008 - 12:58:42 EST


Hi -

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:01:57PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> [...]
> well, -freorder-blocks seems to be default-enabled at -O2 on gcc 4.2, so
> we should already be getting that, right?

Right.

> [...] So it would be nice if we could collect all this offline code
> and stuff it away into another portion of the kernel image. (or,
> into another portion of the object file - which would still be good
> enough in practice)

That would be the -freorder-blocks-and-partition flag, as proposed by
Arjan two Februarys ago. I don't see any traces of Andi's overriding
"-fno-reorder-blocks" in the current linus tree, so maybe it's time to
resurrect this one:

http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/39/196123.html

- FChE
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