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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	prasanna@in.ibm.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>, Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>,
	Richard J Moore <richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com>,
	Michel Dagenais <michel.dagenais@polymtl.ca>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>,
	ltt-dev@shafik.org, systemtap@sources.redhat.com,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	"Jose R. Santos" <jrs@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers 0.13 for 2.6.17
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:57:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4519781D.9040503@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060926180414.GA10497@Krystal>

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ok, so as far as I can see, we can only control the execution flow by modifying
> values in the output list of the asm.
>
> Do you think the following would work ?
>
>
> #define MARK_JUMP(name, format, args...) \
>         do { \
>                 char condition; \
>                 asm volatile(   ".section .markers, \"a\";\n\t" \
>                                         ".long 0f;\n\t" \
>                                         ".previous;\n\t" \
>                                         "0:\n\t" \
>                                         "movb $0,%1;\n\t" \
>                                 : "+m" (__marker_sequencer), \
>                                 "=r" (condition) : ); \
>                 if(unlikely(condition)) { \
>                         MARK_CALL(name, format, ## args); \
>                 } \
>         } while(0)
>   

Yep, that looks reasonable.  Though you could just directly test a 
per-marker enable flag, rather than using "condition"...

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-26 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-25 23:33 [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers 0.13 for 2.6.17 Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-25 23:56 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-26  0:16   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-26  0:25     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-26  0:45       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-26  1:02         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-26  2:59           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-26  5:03             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-26 18:04               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-26 18:57                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2006-09-26 19:08                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-26 19:49                     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-09-26 20:05                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-26  0:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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