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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Some love to default profiler
On 04/07/07, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) Drop __KERNEL__ out of profile.h. It contains only internal kernel stuff and
> not in exported headers list

Even if it's not in the list of exported headers, does it really hurt
to retain that extra safeguard?

> 2) Put profile.c under CONFIG_PROFILING. You enabled profiling in config, you
> will get it.

Makes logical sense. If the user didn't enable CONFIG_PROFILING why
should she get any profiling related overhead of any kind if we can
avoid it?

> Removes conditional branch from schedule(). Code savings on my
> usual config:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 2921871 179895 180224 3281990 321446 vmlinux before
> 2920141 179847 180224 3280212 320d54 vmlinux after
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> -1730 -48 -1778
>
Nice savings there. Not that 1.7K is huge, but it's kernel memory is
precious :-)

> 3) Make timer_hook static (hi, Adrian!)

Makes perfect sense to me.

> 4) Convert do {} while (0) into static inline functions

Seems reasonable.

> 5) minor misc stuff
>

One tiny comment below.


> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> include/linux/profile.h | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
> kernel/Makefile | 3 +
> kernel/profile.c | 2 -
> 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>
[snip]
> +#define prof_on 0
> +static inline void profile_init(void)
> +{
> +}

Just to be pedantic; don't we want a blank line between functions
here, even if they are empty?

> +static inline void profile_tick(int type)
> +{
> +}
> +static inline void profile_hits(int type, void *ip, unsigned int nr_hits)
> +{
> +}
> +static inline void profile_hit(int type, void *ip)
> +{
> +}
> +static inline void profile_munmap(unsigned long addr)
> +{
> +}
> +static inline void profile_task_exit(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +{
> +}
> +static inline int profile_handoff_task(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +{
> + return 0;
> +}
[snip]

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