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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [for-next][PATCH 08/20] tracing: Warn if a tracepoint is not
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 21:35:15 +0100
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> So I understand that you wish to banish tracepoints from static inline
> functions within headers to ensure they only appear within a single module.
> This seems to be a step backward, but let's assume we stick to that rule.
> Then how do you envision dealing with Link-Time Optimisations (LTO) ?

I assume it uses the file name defines set by Kbuild? These don't change with
LTO. It's whatever was specified at compile time. Also LTO doesn't
inline over module boundaries (if the module is not built in)

-Andi