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From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@leon.nu>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-cachefs <linux-cachefs@redhat.com>,
	linux-afs <linux-afs@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Refactor kenter/kleave/kdebug macros
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 16:52:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALq1K=KTGd5Xdj88PmQM3H3aSpakLbUdG=usi+7g9zmN+Ms4Xw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23799.1431955741@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:29 PM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> Leon Romanovsky <leon@leon.nu> wrote:
>
>> Blind conversion to pr_debug will blow the code because it will be always
>> compiled in.
>
> No, it won't.
Sorry, you are right.

>
>> Additionally, It looks like the output of these macros can be viewed by ftrace
>> mechanism.
>
> *blink* It can?
I was under strong impression that "function" and "function_graph"
tracers will give similar kenter/kleave information. Do I miss
anything important, except the difference in output format?

>
>> Maybe we should delete them from mm/nommu.c as was pointed by Joe?
>
> Why?
If ftrace is sufficient to get the debug information, there will no
need to duplicate it.

>
> David

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-18 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-16 17:01 Leon Romanovsky
2015-05-16 17:09 ` Joe Perches
2015-05-16 18:56   ` Leon Romanovsky
2015-05-18 10:31 ` David Howells
2015-05-18 13:23   ` Leon Romanovsky
2015-05-18 13:27     ` Leon Romanovsky
2015-05-18 13:29   ` David Howells
2015-05-18 13:52     ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2015-05-18 15:20     ` David Howells
2015-05-18 18:35       ` Leon Romanovsky

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