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From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] ftrace: Use -mfentry when supported (this is for x86_64 right now)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:45:19 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5E5BCF.1040509@hitachi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297973501.23343.953.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

(2011/02/18 5:11), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 01:07 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> 
>> I just thought that frequent stop-machine is not so good from the user's
>> POV. I agree that disabled probe ignoring the call is enough.
>> Maybe, it could be done with the similar mechanism of jump optimization.
> 
> I thought jump optimization still calls stop_machine too?

Yes, but now it does batch optimization.
Even if hundreds kprobes are registered separately, jump optimization
has been done in background with a stop_machine per every 256 probes.
(Until optimizing, kprobes can use breakpoints instead)

Thank you,

-- 
Masami HIRAMATSU
2nd Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Systems Development Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-18 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-09 20:02 [RFC][PATCH 0/4] ftrace: Use -mfentry when supported (this is for x86_64 right now) Steven Rostedt
2011-02-09 20:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/4] ftrace: Make recordmcount.c handle __fentry__ Steven Rostedt
2011-02-09 20:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/4] ftrace: Add -mfentry to Makefile on function tracer Steven Rostedt
2011-02-09 20:28   ` Steven Rostedt
2011-02-09 21:22     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-09 20:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/4] ftrace: Do not test frame pointers if -mfentry is used Steven Rostedt
2011-02-09 20:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/4] ftrace/x86: Add support for -mfentry to x86_64 Steven Rostedt
2011-02-10  2:38 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/4] ftrace: Use -mfentry when supported (this is for x86_64 right now) Masami Hiramatsu
2011-02-17 12:37 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-02-17 13:18   ` Steven Rostedt
2011-02-17 15:34     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-02-17 15:46       ` Steven Rostedt
2011-02-17 16:07         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-02-17 20:11           ` Steven Rostedt
2011-02-18 11:45             ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2011-02-18 15:07               ` Steven Rostedt
2011-02-18 15:19                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-02-18 20:10                   ` Dominique Toupin
2011-02-18 20:36                     ` Steven Rostedt
2011-02-18 21:45                       ` Dominique Toupin
2011-02-18 22:39                     ` Andi Kleen
2011-02-18 22:45                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-18 23:02                         ` Steven Rostedt
2011-02-19  5:07                           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-02-19  5:10                           ` hpas

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