Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 4 Dec 2007 18:57:44 +0000 | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | Re: [patch 2/2] Linux Kernel Markers - Create modpost file |
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:18:47PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> This adds some new magic in the MODPOST phase for CONFIG_MARKERS.
> Analogous to the Module.symvers file, the build will now write a
> Module.markers file when CONFIG_MARKERS=y is set. This file lists
> the name, defining module, and format string of each marker,
> separated by \t characters. This simple text file can be used by
> offline build procedures for instrumentation code, analogous to
> how System.map and Module.symvers can be useful to have for
> kernels other than the one you are running right now.
> > The strings are made easy to extract by having the __trace_mark macro
> define the name and format together in a single array called __mstrtab_*
> in the __markers_strings section. This is straightforward and reliable
> as long as the marker structs are always defined by this macro. It is
> an unreasonable amount of hairy work to extract the string pointers from
> the __markers section structs, which entails handling a relocation type
> for every machine under the sun.
Generating something like this might make sense. But until you actually
add ome example code, e.g. to generate a tracing module for each probe
marker in a given module I don't see any point in adding this.
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