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From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu, mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/5] move WARN_ON() out of line
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 13:40:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080106194005.GA7992@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080105190959.1880f1c4@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 07:09:59PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> CC: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
> Acked-by: Matt Meckall <mpm@selenic.com>
> 
> A quick grep shows that there are currently 1145 instances of WARN_ON
> in the kernel. Currently, WARN_ON is pretty much entirely inlined,
> which makes it hard to enhance it without growing the size of the kernel
> (and getting Andrew unhappy).
> 
> This patch build on top of Olof's patch that introduces __WARN,
> and places the slowpath out of line. It also uses Ingo's suggestion
> to not use __FUNCTION__ but to use kallsyms to do the lookup;
> this saves a ton of extra space since gcc doesn't need to store the function
> string twice now:
> 
> 3936367  833603  624736 5394706  525112 vmlinux.before
> 3917508  833603  624736 5375847  520767 vmlinux-slowpath
> 
> 15Kb savings...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-06 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-06  3:07 [patch 0/5] enhance WARN_ON series Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06  3:08 ` [patch 1/5] Introduce __WARN() Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06 11:44   ` Richard Knutsson
2008-01-06 15:42     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06 16:09       ` Richard Knutsson
2008-01-06 17:10         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06 17:42           ` Richard Knutsson
2008-01-06  3:09 ` [patch 2/5] move WARN_ON() out of line Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06 19:40   ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2008-01-06  3:10 ` [patch 3/5] Add the end-of-trace marker and the module list to WARN_ON() Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06 10:04   ` David Woodhouse
2008-01-07 17:31     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-06  3:11 ` [patch 4/5] bugh-remove-have_arch_bug--have_arch_warn Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06  3:12 ` [patch 5/5] PowerPC: switch to generic WARN_ON / BUG_ON Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06 11:16   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-06 14:46     ` Olof Johansson
2008-01-06  9:26 ` [patch 0/5] enhance WARN_ON series Ingo Molnar
2008-01-06 20:22 ` [PATCH] Add bug/warn marker to generic report_bug() Olof Johansson
2008-01-06 21:38   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-07  1:22     ` Olof Johansson
2008-01-07  4:55       ` Arjan van de Ven

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