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* [patch 0/6] Linux Kernel Markers - for 2.6.22-rc2-mm1
@ 2007-05-30 14:03 Mathieu Desnoyers
  2007-05-30 14:04 ` [patch 1/6] Use EXTRARW_DATA in architectures Mathieu Desnoyers
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From: Mathieu Desnoyers @ 2007-05-30 14:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, linux-kernel

Hi,

Here is the port of the Linux Kernel Markers for 2.6.22-rc2-mm1. It depends on
the conditional calls infrastructure.

I took account of Sam Ravnborg's comments about EXTRARW_DATA in this patch.

It applies at the end of the 2.6.22-rc2-mm1 series, after the conditional call
patches, in the following order :

use-extra_rwdata-in-architectures.patch
linux-kernel-markers-architecture-independent-code.patch
linux-kernel-markers-hash-table.patch
linux-kernel-markers-kconfig-menus.patch
linux-kernel-markers-documentation.patch
linux-kernel-markers-port-blktrace-to-markers.patch

Mathieu

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* [patch 0/6] Linux Kernel Markers
@ 2007-05-29 18:37 Mathieu Desnoyers
  2007-05-29 18:37 ` [patch 5/6] Linux Kernel Markers - Documentation Mathieu Desnoyers
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Mathieu Desnoyers @ 2007-05-29 18:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, linux-kernel

Hi,

The Linux Kernel Markers have been reworked to now depend on the "Conditional
Calls" as a basic infrastructure for enabling the calls to the function
pointers (probes).

The second major change in this release is the use of a hash table to keep track
of the enabled markers : it permits it issue the marker_arm_probe before loading
a module containing the specified probe. The probe connexion to the marker is
done both when the marker is armed and at module load time. It fixes an
unexpected behavior of the previous version, which was due to the fact that
users might have expected that the markers would be set for newly loaded
modules. Since there is no dependency between the marker and modules, the order
could easily be wrong.

A hash table using a hash of the marker name is used to give O(1) lookup at
module load time.

This serie of patches depends on the conditional calls. Please add at the end of
the 2.6.22-mm1 series:

use-extra_rwdata-in-architectures.patch
#
linux-kernel-markers-architecture-independent-code.patch
linux-kernel-markers-hash-table.patch
linux-kernel-markers-kconfig-menus.patch
linux-kernel-markers-documentation.patch
linux-kernel-markers-port-blktrace-to-markers.patch

Mathieu


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Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F  BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68

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