From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:28:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only process_die notifier in ia64_do_page_fault if KPROBES is configured. In-Reply-To: <20050830001905.GA18279@linux.jf.intel.com> Message-ID: References: <200508262246.j7QMkEoT013490@linux.jf.intel.com> <200508270224.26423.ak@suse.de> <20050830001905.GA18279@linux.jf.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rusty Lynch Cc: Andi Kleen , Rusty Lynch , linux-mm@kvack.org, prasanna@in.ibm.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com List-ID: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Rusty Lynch wrote: > So, assuming inlining the notifier_call_chain would address Christoph's > conserns, is the following patch something like what you are sugesting? > This would make all the kdebug.h::notify_die() calls use the inline version. Please do not generate any code if the feature cannot ever be used (CONFIG_KPROBES off). With this patch we still have lots of unnecessary code being executed on each page fault. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org