linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 01/22 -v2] Add basic support for gcc profiler instrumentation

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:28:28 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/22 -v2] Add basic support for gcc profiler instrumentation

Hi Steven.

> Index: linux-compile-i386.git/arch/x86/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-compile-i386.git.orig/arch/x86/Kconfig	2008-01-09 14:09:36.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-compile-i386.git/arch/x86/Kconfig	2008-01-09 14:10:07.000000000 -0500
> @@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ config GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
>  	bool
>  	default y
>  
> +config ARCH_HAS_MCOUNT
> +       bool
> +       default y
> +

Please use the following scheme:

arch/x86/Kconfig:
 config X86
+	select HAVE_MCOUNT

lib/tracing/Kconfig

+ # ARCH shall select HAVE_MCOUNT if they provide this function
+ config HAVE_MCOUNT
+	bool
+
+ config MCOUNT
+	bool
+	select FRAME_POINTER

And then in your later patches:
+config MCOUNT_TRACER
+       bool "Profiler instrumentation based tracer"
+       depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_MCOUNT
+       select MCOUNT
+       help
+         Use profiler....

The "default n" is a noop since this is the default.
And note that the depends on is removed from MCOUNT
because you use it as a select target (so dependencies
are not checked anyway).

With this scheme implmented you:
- Use new naming convention (HAVE_*)
- Avoid defining one config variable per arch
- Do not have dependencies on selected symbols
- More compact representation in arch Kconfig files

	Sam
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