linux-kernel - Re: [tip:tracing/ftrace] ftrace: remove struct list_head from struct dyn

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Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:50:01 +0800
From:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
CC:	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	srostedt@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:tracing/ftrace] ftrace: remove struct list_head from	struct
 dyn_ftrace

Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> 
> May be I'm wrong. May be I misunderstood this patch.
> But I don't understand how flags can be used at the same time as a pointer
> and as a flag value.
> 

When a new dyn_ftrace is added to ftrace_new_addrs list, the flag is 0,
it's always 0 until this dyn_ftrace is removed from the list, so we can
reuse the flag field. As Steven's suggest, using an union is better.

ftrace_convert_nops()
  ftrace_record_ip() // allocate dyn_ftrace, and add it
                     // to ftrace_new_addrs list
  ftrace_update_code() // remove it from ftrace_new_addrs.

Lai.

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