Re: [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers

Ingo Molnar
2006-09-19T08:21:50Z

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> > +choice
> > + prompt "MARK code marker behavior"
>
> > +config MARK_KPROBE
> > +config MARK_JPROBE
> > +config MARK_FPROBE
> > + Change markers for a function call.
> > +config MARK_PRINT
>
> as indicated before in great detail, NACK on this profileration of
> marker options, especially the function call one. I'd like to see _one_
> marker mechanism that distros could enable, preferably with zero (or at
> most one NOP) in-code overhead. (You can of course patch whatever
> extension ontop of it, in out-of-tree code, to gain further performance
> advantage by generating direct system-calls.)
^---function

Ingo