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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Put the BUG __FILE__ and __LINE__ info out of line
Date: 28 Sep 2006 21:44:18 +0200
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:44:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060928194418.GA51533@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609281626001.25939@blonde.wat.veritas.com>

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:30:19PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:30:12AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > > Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > >But no out of line section. So overall it's smaller, although the cache 
> > > >footprint
> > > >is 2 bytes larger. But then is 2 bytes larger really an issue? We don't 
> > > >have
> > > >_that_ many BUGs anyways.
> > > >  
> > > 
> > > I think the out of line section is a feature; no point in crufting up 
> > > the icache with BUG gunk, especially since a number of them are on 
> > > fairly hot paths.
> > 
> > It's 10 bytes per BUG. 
> 
> Or 9 bytes per BUG: I protested about the disassembly problem back
> when the minimized BUG() first went in, and have been using "ljmp"
> in my i386 builds ever since:

Good point.

Need to check if that works on x86-64 too. 

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-28 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-28  6:00 [PATCH] Put the BUG __FILE__ and __LINE__ info out of line Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-28  6:35 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28  6:49   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-28  7:00     ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28  7:17       ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-28  7:26         ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28 10:15           ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-28 10:30             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-28 10:38               ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-28 15:30                 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-09-28 19:44                   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-09-28 10:27       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-28 16:18         ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28 16:32           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-28  7:16 ` Andi Kleen

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