Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/2] jump label: make enable/disable o(1)

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Dec 16 2010 - 15:44:53 EST


On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:36 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Tracepoints keep their own reference counts for enable/disable, so a
> simple "enable/disable" is fine as far as tracepoints are concerned. Why
> does perf need that refcounting done by the static jumps ?

Because the refcount is all we have... Why not replace that tracepoint
refcount with the jumplabel thing?
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