Re: [PATCH 0/2] make weak attributes in {k,u}probes

From: Naveen N. Rao
Date: Tue Sep 20 2022 - 13:03:35 EST


Yipeng Zou wrote:
We have some function implementation under some arch does nothing.
We can mark it with weak attributes to improve.

That's not always an improvement. See [1] for an example, among many other patches to reduce use of __weak functions in the kernel.

As an alternative, please consider the approach used in [1].


- Naveen

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220519091237.676736-1-naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/