linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v5 08/11] tracing: not trace mips_timecounter

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Date:	Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:53:05 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>,
	Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@...glemail.com>,
	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Adam Nemet <anemet@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Patrik Kluba <kpajko79@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v5 08/11] tracing: not trace mips_timecounter_init()
	in MIPS

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 12:31:12PM +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
> I think if we use something like __mips_notrace here, we may get lots of
> __ARCH_notraces here too, 'Cause some other platforms(at least, as I
> know, Microblaze will do it too) may also need to add one here, it will
> become:
> 
> __mips_notrace __ARCH1_notrace __ARCH2_notrace .... foo() {...}
> 
> A little ugly ;)


Yeah :)
I thought Mips would be the only one to do that.

 
> and If a new platform need it's __ARCH_notrace, they need to touch the
> common part of ftrace, more side-effects!
> 
> but with __arch_notrace, the archs only need to touch it's own part,
> Although there is a side-effect as you mentioned above ;)
>
> So, what should we do?
> 
> Regards,
> 	Wu Zhangjin
>

Why not __time ?
As it's normal that such few functions that are used to read the timecounter
have fair chances to be __no_trace on archs like MIPS. Interested
archs would just need to override a default stub __time.

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