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Subject: Re: [PATCH -v5 08/11] tracing: not trace mips_timecounter_init()
 in MIPS
From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
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To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:08:07 +0800
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On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 12:53 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 12:31:12PM +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
> > I think if we use something like __mips_notrace here, we may get lots of
> > __ARCH_notraces here too, 'Cause some other platforms(at least, as I
> > know, Microblaze will do it too) may also need to add one here, it will
> > become:
> > 
> > __mips_notrace __ARCH1_notrace __ARCH2_notrace .... foo() {...}
> > 
> > A little ugly ;)
> 
> 
> Yeah :)
> I thought Mips would be the only one to do that.
> 
>  
> > and If a new platform need it's __ARCH_notrace, they need to touch the
> > common part of ftrace, more side-effects!
> > 
> > but with __arch_notrace, the archs only need to touch it's own part,
> > Although there is a side-effect as you mentioned above ;)
> >
> > So, what should we do?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 	Wu Zhangjin
> >
> 
> Why not __time ?
> As it's normal that such few functions that are used to read the timecounter
> have fair chances to be __no_trace on archs like MIPS. Interested
> archs would just need to override a default stub __time.
> 

Good pointer, will apply it ;)

Regards,
	Wu Zhangjin