From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: tracing: Optimize the implementation
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:36:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9A6D79.6040306@caviumnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100312085053.GB6364@alpha.franken.de>
On 03/12/2010 12:50 AM, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 02:07:37AM +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * If the Instruction Pointer is in module space (0xc0000000), return ture;
>> + * otherwise, it is in kernel space (0x80000000), return false.
>> + */
>> +#define in_module(ip) (unlikely((ip)& 0x40000000))
>> +
>
> looks broken for 64bit, but maybe this is a 32bit only feature...
>
I initially thought the same thing. However for 64-bit kernels linked
in ckseg0 it is still true. If we use the -msym32 optimization, we are
forced to be in the ckseg space, so for most cases it works.
David Daney.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-12 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-11 18:07 [PATCH] MIPS: tracing: Optimize the implementation Wu Zhangjin
2010-03-12 8:50 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2010-03-12 10:11 ` Wu Zhangjin
2010-03-12 10:14 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-03-12 16:36 ` David Daney [this message]
[not found] ` <4B993B32.7000006@caviumnetworks.com>
2010-03-12 11:43 ` Wu Zhangjin
2010-03-12 14:57 ` Wu Zhangjin
2010-03-13 4:10 ` Wu Zhangjin
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