Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Static calls

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Fri Nov 09 2018 - 10:21:45 EST


On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 07:16:17AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 11:28 PM Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > All other usecases are bonus, but it would certainly be interesting to
> > investigate the impact of using these APIs for tracing: that too is a
> > feature enabled everywhere but utilized only by a small fraction of Linux
> > users - so literally every single cycle or instruction saved or hot-path
> > shortened is a major win.
>
> For tracing, we'd want static_call_set_to_nop() or something like that, right?

Are we talking about tracepoints? Or ftrace?

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Josh