Re: [PATCH RFC v3 0/8] kernel-hacking: introduce CONFIG_NO_AUTO_INLINE

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 03:22:55PM +0000, Brendan Jackman wrote:

> Whereas enlarging the pool of functions that you can _optionally target_
> for tracing, or nice reliable breakpoints in GDB, and disasm that's
> easier to mentally map back to C, seems like a helpful improvement for
> test builds. Personally I sometimes spam a bunch of `noinline` into code
> I'm debugging so this seems like a way to just slap that same thing on
> the whole tree without dirtying the code, right?

Dunno, I'm more of the printk school of debugging. Very rarely do I
bother with GDB (so rare in fact that I have to look up how to even do
this).