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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 3/6] ftrace: enable mcount recording for modules
Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Friday 15 August 2008 05:45:09 Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
>> This patch enables the loading of the __mcount_section of modules and
>> changing all the callers of mcount into nops.
>>
> ...
>
>> + if (mcountindex) {
>> + void *mseg = (void *)sechdrs[mcountindex].sh_addr;
>> + ftrace_init_module(mseg, mseg + sechdrs[mcountindex].sh_size);
>>
>
> You don't actually need the if. The size of section 0 is 0.
>

Thanks,

But I find the if is a bit more clear. It may confuse code reviewers if
we expect them to know that sechdrs[0].sh_size is zero. This isn't a hot
path.

-- Steve




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