Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751794AbWIRPtJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:49:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751795AbWIRPtJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:49:09 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:24252 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751794AbWIRPtH (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:49:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:47:07 -0400 From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" To: Alan Cox Cc: Ingo Molnar , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Paul Mundt , Mathieu Desnoyers , linux-kernel , Jes Sorensen , Andrew Morton , Tom Zanussi , Richard J Moore , Michel Dagenais , Christoph Hellwig , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner , William Cohen , "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: tracepoint maintainance models Message-ID: <20060918154707.GJ3951@redhat.com> References: <450D182B.9060300@opersys.com> <20060917112128.GA3170@localhost.usen.ad.jp> <20060917143623.GB15534@elte.hu> <20060917153633.GA29987@Krystal> <20060918000703.GA22752@elte.hu> <450DF28E.3050101@opersys.com> <20060918011352.GB30835@elte.hu> <20060918122527.GC3951@redhat.com> <20060918150231.GA8197@elte.hu> <1158594491.6069.125.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="A9z/3b/E4MkkD+7G" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1158594491.6069.125.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1114 Lines: 38 --A9z/3b/E4MkkD+7G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi - alan wrote: > I think your implementation is questionable if it causes any kind of > jumps and conditions, even marked unlikely. Just put the needed data in > a seperate section which can be used by the debugging tools. [...] > No need to actually mess with the code for the usual cases. Trouble is that it is specifically the *unusual* cases that need compiler assistance via static markers, otherwise we'd manage with just k/djprobes & debuginfo type efforts. - FChE --A9z/3b/E4MkkD+7G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFDr97VZbdDOm/ZT0RArQmAJ9Ae6J5RJK42fXpDhvGDXUXtiQhaQCfWLn0 0NRZRcIT4JtLPFggxewEuNM= =zdic -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --A9z/3b/E4MkkD+7G-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/