* Frank Ch. Eigler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi - > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 08:58:19AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > [...] > > > > Current systemtap marker support code relies on the __markers_strings > > > > section. > > > Let users know that in comment above section definition in ld script. > > [...] > > /* Markers: strings (used by SystemTAP) */ \ > > [...] > > I did not mean to imply that this was a necessary state of affairs. > > The marker metadata must be stored in at least one place in the kernel > image - this just happens to be a convenient one that David Smith's > recent systemtap code used. Without it, we'd probably have to do a > more complicated search, following the pointers within the __markers > structs. That could work, but it hasn't been built/tested. > > So, this proposed change (removal of this section) would break > systemtap, and we have to jump through more hoops to make it work > again. Is the change worth it? >
I guess so. Getting the markers as clean as we can is very important for kernel inclusion. Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
