Re: [PATCH] tracing: Cleanup the convoluted softirq tracepoints

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Jason Baron wrote:
> > > Now even worse, when you NOP out the jmpq then your tracepoint is
> > > still not enabled. Brilliant !
> > > 
> > 
> > The 'jmpq' in the enabled case is patched with a jmpq to the body of the
> > tracepoint itself.
> 
> Brilliant.

IOW, We now jump around the jump which jumps around the disabled code.

Thanks,

	tglx

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