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Message-ID: <20080110182828.GA19399@uranus.ravnborg.org>
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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