* 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
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