Re: [PATCH 0/5] ftrace: to kill a daemon

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Aug 08 2008 - 21:19:24 EST


> I wish we had a true 5 byte nop. The alternative is a jmp 0, which is
> measurable. This is replacing mcount from a kernel compile with the -pg

Scary usage. How much is the difference?

BTW a good way to get most of that back would be to not use frame
pointers if you have them enabled ;-) Unfortunately recently
the "select FRAME_POINTER"s keep creeping all over so far too many kernels
suffer from this slow mode now :-/

-Andi
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