Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:43:57 -0400 | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers |
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* Vara Prasad (prasadav@us.ibm.com) wrote: > It is an interesting idea but there appears to be following hard issues > (some of which you have already listed) i am not able to see how we can > overcome them > > 1) We are going to have a duplicate of the whole function which means > any significant changes in the original function needs to be done on the > copy as well, you think maintainers would like this double work idea. > Not with my marker proposal. There is only need to compile it with different flags.
> 2) Inline functions is often the place where we need a fast path to > overcome the current kprobes overhead. > > 3) As you said it is not trivial across all the platforms to do a switch > to the instrumented function from the original during the execution. > This problem is similar to the issue we are dealing with djprobes. >
I would really like to know how good djprobes is at instrumenting the prologue of a function.
Mathieu
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