Re: [RFC -tip] x86: introduce ENTRY(KPROBE)_X86 assembly helpersto catch unbalanced declaration

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Sun Nov 23 2008 - 14:04:41 EST


[Ingo Molnar - Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 08:00:25PM +0100]
...
| >
| > So be it :) Btw I think Alexander is right -- better to use .warning
| > instead of .error (and without .abort) even on x86. Could you update
| > Ingo?
|
| .error is perfectly fine because that way automated tests that we do
| on -tip will catch any bugs, we really dont want to mis-annotate these
| things. Warnings tend to only pile up and rarely get fixed - without
| enforcement mechanism that causes people to fix them.
|
| Ingo
|

ok, let me try to play with this feature a bit. Will report the results.

- Cyrill -
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