From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756196AbYGEX3V (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:29:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752614AbYGEX3O (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:29:14 -0400 Received: from [194.117.236.238] ([194.117.236.238]:54500 "EHLO heracles.linux360.ro" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752537AbYGEX3N (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:29:13 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 02:27:11 +0300 From: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu To: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [RFC patch 00/12] Tracepoints v2 Message-ID: <20080706022711.199401fe@linux360.ro> In-Reply-To: <20080704235207.147809973@polymtl.ca> References: <20080704235207.147809973@polymtl.ca> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:52:07 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Hi, > > Here is the second release of kernel tracepoints, including the > architecture independent instrumentation taken from LTTng. I submit > this for another round of comments. Hi, Not using format specifiers sounds pretty nice. Are there any other advantages over markers? What about self-modifying code, does it employ this technique to eliminate conditional branching (markers did this on some arches, IIRC)? I'm considering using this for kmemtrace, so please keep me Cc-ed if possible. Cheers, Eduard P.S.: BTW, the To header is either broken or I screwed it (I'm reading this via Gmane's NNTP): "Steven Rostedt