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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:52:15 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...lshack.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/many] PROC macro to annotate functions in assembly files * Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:17:54AM +0100, Alexander van Heukelum wrote: > > Introduce the PROC macro in the generic header file > > include/linux/linkage.h to annotate functions in assembly > > files. This is a first step to fully annotate functions > > (procedures) in .S-files. The PROC macro complements the > > already existing and being used ENDPROC macro. The generic > > implementation of PROC is exactly the same as ENTRY. > > > > The goal is to annotate functions, at least those called > > from C code, with PROC at the beginning and ENDPROC at the > > end. This is for the benefit of debugging and tracing. It > > will also allow to introduce a framework to check for > > nesting problems and missing annotations in a later stage > > by overriding ENTRY/END and PROC/ENDPROC in architecture- > > specific code, after the annotation errors have been fixed. > > > > Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm> > > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> > > I understand where you are coming from with these. > But what I see now is: > > ENTRY/END > PROC/ENDPROC > KPROBE_ENTRY/KPROBE_END btw., KPROBE_ENTRY is an ugly euphemism. It should be renamed to NOKPROBE_ENTRY/NOKPROBE_END. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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