Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:55:51 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] tracing/x86: Save CR2 before tracing irqsoff on error_entry |
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 19:28:30 +0100 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 02:10:20PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:05:06 -0700 > > Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote: > > > > > In the long run, I think the right solution is to rewrite even more of > > > this mess in C. We really ought to be able to put the IRQ flag > > > tracing and the context tracking into C code. > > > > And once we do that, we can work on getting the irq tracing > > incorporated into a jump_label type that we could possibly enable > > lockdep at start up, and then disable it later, even on production > > systems! That is, to be able to turn it off and bring the system back > > up to full speed. > > You forget the stupid amount of data bloat that lockdep brings.
No I didn't. Some users only care about performance, but find memory cheap.
-- Steve
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