Re: [PATCH 1/many] PROC macro to annotate functions in assembly files

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:17:54AM +0100, Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
> > Introduce the PROC macro in the generic header file
> > include/linux/linkage.h to annotate functions in assembly
> > files. This is a first step to fully annotate functions
> > (procedures) in .S-files. The PROC macro complements the
> > already existing and being used ENDPROC macro. The generic
> > implementation of PROC is exactly the same as ENTRY.
> > 
> > The goal is to annotate functions, at least those called
> > from C code, with PROC at the beginning and ENDPROC at the
> > end. This is for the benefit of debugging and tracing. It
> > will also allow to introduce a framework to check for
> > nesting problems and missing annotations in a later stage
> > by overriding ENTRY/END and PROC/ENDPROC in architecture-
> > specific code, after the annotation errors have been fixed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
> > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> 
> I understand where you are coming from with these.
> But what I see now is:
> 
> ENTRY/END
> PROC/ENDPROC
> KPROBE_ENTRY/KPROBE_END

btw., KPROBE_ENTRY is an ugly euphemism. It should be renamed to 
NOKPROBE_ENTRY/NOKPROBE_END.

	Ingo