Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751331AbWISIVu (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:21:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751379AbWISIVu (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:21:50 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:16537 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751331AbWISIVt (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:21:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:13:07 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Paul Mundt , 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" , ltt-dev@shafik.org, systemtap@sources.redhat.com, Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers Message-ID: <20060919081307.GA32108@elte.hu> References: <20060918234502.GA197@Krystal> <20060919081124.GA30394@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060919081124.GA30394@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.9 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.9 required=5.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts 0.5 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.5000] -0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 947 Lines: 26 * Ingo Molnar wrote: > > +choice > > + prompt "MARK code marker behavior" > > > +config MARK_KPROBE > > +config MARK_JPROBE > > +config MARK_FPROBE > > + Change markers for a function call. > > +config MARK_PRINT > > as indicated before in great detail, NACK on this profileration of > marker options, especially the function call one. I'd like to see _one_ > marker mechanism that distros could enable, preferably with zero (or at > most one NOP) in-code overhead. (You can of course patch whatever > extension ontop of it, in out-of-tree code, to gain further performance > advantage by generating direct system-calls.) ^---function Ingo - 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/