Re: [PATCH 05/05] Linux Kernel Markers, non optimised architectures

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Thu Jan 11 2007 - 23:40:08 EST


Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

+#define MARK(name, format, args...) \
+ do { \
+ static marker_probe_func *__mark_call_##name = \
+ __mark_empty_function; \
+ volatile static char __marker_enable_##name = 0; \
+ static const struct __mark_marker_c __mark_c_##name \
+ __attribute__((section(".markers.c"))) = \
+ { #name, &__mark_call_##name, format } ; \
+ static const struct __mark_marker __mark_##name \
+ __attribute__((section(".markers"))) = \
+ { &__mark_c_##name, &__marker_enable_##name } ; \
+ asm volatile ( "" : : "i" (&__mark_##name)); \
+ __mark_check_format(format, ## args); \
+ if (unlikely(__marker_enable_##name)) { \
+ preempt_disable(); \
+ (*__mark_call_##name)(format, ## args); \
+ preempt_enable_no_resched(); \

Why not just preempt_enable() here?

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