Re: 2.6.9-rc4-mm1

[Andi Kleen]

Tim Cambrant <cambrant@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 03:25:02AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> optimize-profile-path-slightly.patch
>>   Optimize profile path slightly
>>
>
> I'm still getting an oops at startup with this patch. After reversing
> it, everything is fine. Weren't you supposed to remove that from your
> tree until it was fixed?

There's a fixed version around. I thought Andrew had merged that one?

-Andi

-------------------------------------

Fixed version of profile optimization


Index: linux/kernel/profile.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/kernel/profile.c	2004-09-30 10:35:51.%N +0200
+++ linux/kernel/profile.c	2004-10-07 13:22:33.%N +0200
@@ -181,20 +181,27 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(profile_event_register);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(profile_event_unregister);
 
-void profile_hit(int type, void *__pc)
+static inline void __profile_hit(int type, void *__pc)
 {
 	unsigned long pc;
 
-	if (prof_on != type || !prof_buffer)
-		return;
 	pc = ((unsigned long)__pc - (unsigned long)_stext) >> prof_shift;
 	atomic_inc(&prof_buffer[min(pc, prof_len - 1)]);
 }
 
+void profile_hit(int type, void *pc)
+{
+	if (prof_on != type || !prof_buffer)
+		return;
+	__profile_hit(type, pc);
+}
+
 void profile_tick(int type, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	if (type == CPU_PROFILING)
 		profile_hook(regs);
+	if (prof_on != type || !prof_buffer)
+		return;
 	if (!user_mode(regs) && cpu_isset(smp_processor_id(), prof_cpu_mask))
 		profile_hit(type, (void *)profile_pc(regs));
 }

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