Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754367AbYAZF0P (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:26:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751203AbYAZFZ6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:25:58 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.58]:36089 "EHLO ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751129AbYAZFZ5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:25:57 -0500 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:25:27 -0500 (EST) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@gandalf.stny.rr.com To: Mathieu Desnoyers cc: LKML , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , Christoph Hellwig , Gregory Haskins , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Thomas Gleixner , Tim Bird , Sam Ravnborg , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Jan Kiszka , John Stultz , Arjan van de Ven , Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/20 -v5] add notrace annotations for NMI routines In-Reply-To: <20080123213139.GB2282@Krystal> Message-ID: References: <20080123160236.969334052@goodmis.org> <20080123160442.063076557@goodmis.org> <20080123213139.GB2282@Krystal> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 851 Lines: 24 On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > * Steven Rostedt (rostedt@goodmis.org) wrote: > > This annotates NMI functions with notrace. Some tracers may be able > > to live with this, but some cannot. So we turn off NMI tracing. > > > > One solution might be to make a notrace_nmi which would only turn > > off NMI tracing if a trace utility needed it off. > > > Is this still needed with the atomic clocksource read ? > Before you ask again, I've still included this in -v6, simply because I didn't get a chance to test it without this patch. I'll try to remember to do that on Monday. -- Steve -- 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/