Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Static calls
From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri Nov 09 2018 - 10:16:34 EST
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 11:28 PM Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> All other usecases are bonus, but it would certainly be interesting to
> investigate the impact of using these APIs for tracing: that too is a
> feature enabled everywhere but utilized only by a small fraction of Linux
> users - so literally every single cycle or instruction saved or hot-path
> shortened is a major win.
For tracing, we'd want static_call_set_to_nop() or something like that, right?
--Andy