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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Douglas Niehaus <niehaus@eecs.ku.edu>,
	Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>,
	Richard J Moore <richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com>,
	William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
	Michel Dagenais <michel.dagenais@polymtl.ca>,
	systemtap@sources.redhat.com, ltt-dev@shafik.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers 0.2 for Linux 2.6.17
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:36:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060919193623.GA9459@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y0m4pv3ek49.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com>

* Frank Ch. Eigler (fche@redhat.com) wrote:
> If you don't allow yourself to presume on-the-fly function
> recompilation, then these markers would need to be made run-time
> rather than compile-time configurable.  That is, not like this:
> 
> > +/* Menu configured markers */
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_MARK
> > +#define MARK	MARK_INACTIVE
> > +#elif defined(CONFIG_MARK_PRINT)
> > +#define MARK	MARK_PRINT
> > +#elif defined(CONFIG_MARK_FPROBE)
> > +#define MARK	MARK_FPROBE
> > +#elif defined(CONFIG_MARK_KPROBE)
> > +#define MARK	MARK_KPROBE
> > +#elif defined(CONFIG_MARK_JPROBE)
> > +#define MARK	MARK_JPROBE
> > +#endif

By making them run-time configurable, I don't see any whay not to bloat the
kernel. How can be embed calls to printk+function+kprobe+djprobe without
having some kind of performance impact ?

Do you have any suggestion for this ? (or maybe am I missing your point ?)

Mathieu


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-19 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-19 18:34 [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers 0.2 for Linux 2.6.17 Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-19  8:39 ` S. P. Prasanna
2006-09-19 20:05   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-19 18:51 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-09-19 19:13   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-19 19:23 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-09-19 19:36   ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2006-09-19 19:45     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-09-19 20:28       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-19 21:07         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-09-19 22:11           ` Karim Yaghmour
2006-09-20 13:20             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-09-20 13:38               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-20 14:57                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-20 15:53                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-09-20 16:37                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-20 17:14                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-20 13:46               ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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