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From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ftace: remove struct list_head in struct dyn_ftrace
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:51:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49BA2C9F.8020009@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)


Impact: save memory

The struct dyn_ftrace table is very large, this patch will save about
50%

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
index e1583f2..4dc32c8 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
@@ -145,7 +145,6 @@ enum {
 };
 
 struct dyn_ftrace {
-	struct list_head	list;
 	unsigned long		ip; /* address of mcount call-site */
 	unsigned long		flags;
 	struct dyn_arch_ftrace	arch;
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index d33d306..40eaaae 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ enum {
 
 static int ftrace_filtered;
 
-static LIST_HEAD(ftrace_new_addrs);
+static struct dyn_ftrace *ftrace_new_addrs;
 
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(ftrace_regex_lock);
 
@@ -408,8 +408,8 @@ ftrace_record_ip(unsigned long ip)
 		return NULL;
 
 	rec->ip = ip;
-
-	list_add(&rec->list, &ftrace_new_addrs);
+	rec->flags = (unsigned long)ftrace_new_addrs;
+	ftrace_new_addrs = rec;
 
 	return rec;
 }
@@ -714,19 +714,21 @@ unsigned long		ftrace_update_tot_cnt;
 
 static int ftrace_update_code(struct module *mod)
 {
-	struct dyn_ftrace *p, *t;
+	struct dyn_ftrace *p;
 	cycle_t start, stop;
 
 	start = ftrace_now(raw_smp_processor_id());
 	ftrace_update_cnt = 0;
 
-	list_for_each_entry_safe(p, t, &ftrace_new_addrs, list) {
+	while (ftrace_new_addrs) {
 
 		/* If something went wrong, bail without enabling anything */
 		if (unlikely(ftrace_disabled))
 			return -1;
 
-		list_del_init(&p->list);
+		p = ftrace_new_addrs;
+		ftrace_new_addrs = (struct dyn_ftrace *)p->flags;
+		p->flags = 0L;
 
 		/* convert record (i.e, patch mcount-call with NOP) */
 		if (ftrace_code_disable(mod, p)) {



             reply	other threads:[~2009-03-13  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-13  9:51 Lai Jiangshan [this message]
2009-03-13 10:39 ` [tip:tracing/ftrace] ftrace: remove struct list_head from struct dyn_ftrace Lai Jiangshan
2009-03-13 13:16   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-16 12:36   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-16 12:42     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-18  2:50       ` Lai Jiangshan

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