Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:37:38 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
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       Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
       Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>,
       Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>, Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC][ PATCH -tip v2 0/7] kprobes: Kprobes jump optimization support
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:28:03PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Hmm, would you know what is the actual name of that section and option?

-freorder-blocks-and-partition

.text.unlikely

> I think another possible solution is decoding those sections and
> black-listing the target functions when making vmlinux or loading
> modules.

Note that this can be pretty much all functions if you're unlucky.

-Andi

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