Re: kernel profiling
Dimitris Michailidis (dimitris@darkside.engr.sgi.com)
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 12:03:41 -0700 (PDT)
On 11-Jul-99 Philip Blundell wrote:
> It looks to me like the majority of the code in
> arch/i386/kernel/profile.c is
> actually not architecture dependent. Perhaps it might be better to
> put the
> common parts in kernel/profile.c and provide a small wrapper in
> include/asm-*
> to call it. This is pretty much what libc does.
True. Actually, the only arch dependent part is the little bit of
assembly to save/restore the registers in mcount(), which is needed for
it to work with regparms.
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Dimitris Michailidis dimitris@engr.sgi.com
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