linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] Prevent wasting time to find out get_parent

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Message-ID: <1335272025.28150.193.camel@twins>
Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:53:45 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Minho Ban <mhban@...sung.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Prevent wasting time to find out get_parent_ip

On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 21:36 +0900, Minho Ban wrote:
> trace_preempt_on/off looks empty if PREEMPT_TRACER is off. But actually it is
> spending time to find out get_parent_ip(even CALLER_ADDR for some ARCH) which is
> in argument. This seems not fair for those who expect to do nothing but increase
> or decrease count.

You can do the same by making them CPP macros and adding a comment as to
why they're macros instead of inlines..
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