Re: [RFC] gcc feature request: Moving blocks into sections

Steven Rostedt
2013-08-05T18:49:46Z

On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 11:29 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Traps nest, that's why there is a stack. (OK, so you don't want to take
> the same trap inside the trap handler, but that code should be very
> limited.) The trap instruction just becomes very short, but rather
> slow, call-return.
>
> However, when you consider the cost you have to consider that the
> tracepoint is doing other work, so it may very well amortize out.

Also, how would you pass the parameters? Every tracepoint has its own
parameters to pass to it. How would a trap know what where to get "prev"
and "next"?

-- Steve