Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jul 1999 12:03:41 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dimitris Michailidis <> | Subject | Re: kernel profiling |
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On 11-Jul-99 Philip Blundell wrote: > It looks to me like the majority of the code in > arch/i386/kernel/profile.c is > actually not architecture dependent. Perhaps it might be better to > put the > common parts in kernel/profile.c and provide a small wrapper in > include/asm-* > to call it. This is pretty much what libc does.
True. Actually, the only arch dependent part is the little bit of assembly to save/restore the registers in mcount(), which is needed for it to work with regparms.
--- Dimitris Michailidis dimitris@engr.sgi.com
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