Re: [PATCH 06/20 -v5] add notrace annotations for NMI routines

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Sat Jan 26 2008 - 00:26:27 EST



On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> * Steven Rostedt (rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > This annotates NMI functions with notrace. Some tracers may be able
> > to live with this, but some cannot. So we turn off NMI tracing.
> >
> > One solution might be to make a notrace_nmi which would only turn
> > off NMI tracing if a trace utility needed it off.
> >
> Is this still needed with the atomic clocksource read ?
>

Before you ask again, I've still included this in -v6, simply because I
didn't get a chance to test it without this patch. I'll try to remember to
do that on Monday.

-- Steve

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