Re: [PATCH 05/05] Linux Kernel Markers, non optimised architectures

Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.systemtap,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.tracing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> +#define MARK(name, format, args...) \
> +	do { \
> +		static marker_probe_func *__mark_call_##name = \
> +					__mark_empty_function; \
> +		volatile static char __marker_enable_##name = 0; \
> +		static const struct __mark_marker_c __mark_c_##name \
> +			__attribute__((section(".markers.c"))) = \
> +			{ #name, &__mark_call_##name, format } ; \
> +		static const struct __mark_marker __mark_##name \
> +			__attribute__((section(".markers"))) = \
> +			{ &__mark_c_##name, &__marker_enable_##name } ; \
> +		asm volatile ( "" : : "i" (&__mark_##name)); \
> +		__mark_check_format(format, ## args); \
> +		if (unlikely(__marker_enable_##name)) { \
> +			preempt_disable(); \
> +			(*__mark_call_##name)(format, ## args); \
> +			preempt_enable_no_resched(); \

Why not just preempt_enable() here?

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