From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763073AbXKMTHc (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:07:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756341AbXKMTHT (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:07:19 -0500 Received: from smtp.polymtl.ca ([132.207.4.11]:45438 "EHLO smtp.polymtl.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756046AbXKMTHS (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:07:18 -0500 Message-Id: <20071113190302.988259011@polymtl.ca> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:03:02 -0500 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFC 0/3] Linux Kernel Markers new features X-Poly-FromMTA: (dijkstra.casi.polymtl.ca [132.207.72.10]) at Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:06:42 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew, Those are the new features I plan to add to the Markers : - Support multiple probes per marker (so blktrace, LTTng, SystemTAP and others can coexist peacefully) - Export the markers to a Module.markers file in modpost (for Systemtap) - Use the Immediate values to optimize the branch when disabled. I depends on the "Immediate Values" patchset and applies on top of 2.6.24-rc2-git3 in this order : #RFC markers-support-multiple-probes.patch linux-kernel-markers-create-modpost-file.patch linux-kernel-markers-immediate-values.patch I submit those as a RFC for now. Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68