[RFC][PATCH 0/4] tracing/perf: Use helper functions to help shrink kernel size

I posted this a while ago (August 2012), and it seemed to have positive feedback. But I forgot about it and it never went any further. http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120810034302.758092...@goodmis.org It works to move the tracepoint code out of the macros and into reusable functions that can save a

[RFC][PATCH 0/4] tracing/perf: Use helper functions to help shrink kernel size

This patch set is another effort to bring down the size of trace events. Helper functions are used to remove duplicate code that is created for each event by the TRACE_EVENT() macros. With a config that enables 707 events in the core kernel, the size is brought down 91,774 bytes! Steven Rostedt