On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 08:05:37 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote:
> The macro magic I can think of would need to change the syntax of the > function definition - for example that is how the SYSCALL_DEFINE*() macros > work. Or something like the EXPORT_SYMBOL(), but that wouldn't include the size of the function. But using the name we could use kallsyms to see if a probe is placed in a function that is blacklisted. Not very pretty to do though. > > It would be nice if there was a GCC extension that marked a function > noinline and allowed the emitting of the function's address (and size) > into a special section - but I'm not aware of any such compiler feature > today. Yeah, I was wishing the same thing. Maybe I'll try to talk with the gcc folks about adding such a feature. Something like void __attribute__((save_loc_and_size(".section"))) function(void) { } -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/