linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: Disable branch profiling in noinstr code

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Message-ID: <20250321131248.02114dd7@batman.local.home>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:12:48 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Peter
 Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Disable branch profiling in noinstr code

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:51:50 +0100
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:

> Though the real fix would be to rip out this likely/unlikely tracer
> hackery all together.

If you want, you could just disable it for all of arch/x86

In my tests, I'm more interested in the generic code anyway.

-- Steve