From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing: Define kmem_trace_alloc_notrace unconditionally
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:35:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B21E826.5060502@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B21E29E.2030507@cn.fujitsu.com>
Li Zefan kirjoitti:
> 于 2009年12月11日 14:01, Pekka Enberg 写道:
>> Pekka Enberg wrote:
>>> Li Zefan wrote:
>>>> Always define kmem_trace_alloc_{,node}_notrace(), otherwise
>>>> perf-kmem will show wrong stats ifndef CONFIG_KMEMTRACE,
>>>> because a kmalloc() memory allocation may be traced by
>>>> both trace_kmalloc() and trace_kmem_cache_alloc().
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
>>> Did you check how much this will make kernel text bigger because of
>>> the inlining happening in kmem_cache_alloc_notrace()?
>> Maybe use CONFIG_TRACING instead of CONFIG_KMEMTRACE here like in the
>> other patch?
>>
>
> Wouldn't removing CONFIG_KMEMTRACE make the code cleaner?
> Anyway, if CONFIG_TRACING is not enabled, all the trace_xxx()
> will be turned into no-op.
Again, I am talking about kernel text size increase in mm/slub.c.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-11 6:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-11 5:50 [PATCH 1/2] tracing: Define kmem_trace_alloc_notrace unconditionally Li Zefan
2009-12-11 5:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Fix no callsite ifndef CONFIG_KMEMTRACE Li Zefan
2009-12-11 6:00 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-12-11 5:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] tracing: Define kmem_trace_alloc_notrace unconditionally Pekka Enberg
2009-12-11 6:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-12-11 6:11 ` Li Zefan
2009-12-11 6:35 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-12-11 6:02 ` Li Zefan
2009-12-11 6:34 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-12-11 7:06 ` Li Zefan
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