Re: [PATCH 2/8] tracing: create automated trace defines

[Andi Kleen]

> I think it was Ingo that let out the idea, and I'm starting to like it.
> 
> Perhaps we should fork off gcc and ship Linux with its own compiler. This 
> way we can optimize it for the kernel and not worry about any userland 
> optimizations.
> 
> I would like to do something like:
> 
> 	if (unlikely(err)) {
> 		__section__(".error_sect") {


gcc already supports that, you don't need to fork anything. It's called
hot/cold partitioning. Basically it splits functions into hot and cold
and unlikely parts and all the cold/unlikely parts go into a separate 
sections.

I think it's normally not enabled by default on x86 though, probably because
it doesn't help too much.

By default (unless you specify -fno-reorder-blocks) it does the same
without sections, just moving unlikely code out of line.

-Andi
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