Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] ftrace: Add dynamically allocated trampolines

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 15:22:27 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jul 2014, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> > Well, I guess the answer to that is what do you consider the trampoline? 
> > I'm currently considering it to be the assembly code that the 
> > mcount/fentry call jumps to. We only have two trampolines (three if you 
> > count the function graph code that will be called directly come 3.17). 
> > Those two are the normal ftrace_caller and the ftrace_regs_caller. 
> 
> BTW, on those archs that support regs saving already, is there really a 
> reson not to kill ftrace_caller and keep just ftrace_regs_caller?
> 

Consistency. Perhaps the two can be the same trampoline, which would be
trivial to implement, but I wouldn't kill one which would make the
generic code more complex.

-- Steve
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