Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > >> * Steven Rostedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>> This annotates NMI functions with notrace. Some tracers may be able >>> to live with this, but some cannot. So we turn off NMI tracing. >>> >>> One solution might be to make a notrace_nmi which would only turn >>> off NMI tracing if a trace utility needed it off. >>> >> Is this still needed with the atomic clocksource read ? >> > > Before you ask again, I've still included this in -v6, simply because I > didn't get a chance to test it without this patch. I'll try to remember to > do that on Monday.
Only in case you finally have to keep the annotations for the posted tracer: Then please make it a Kconfig selectable restriction, because there are use cases of the mcount hook where you are interested in NMI invocations. TiA, Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
