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[Bug translator/9816] functioncallcount.stp causes system crash


------- Additional Comments From fche at redhat dot com  2009-02-10 15:54 -------
(In reply to comment #12)
> Our observations so far:
> b. functioncallcount.stp as it exists probes calls and inlines. That is a
> problem -- at least on powerpc with the upstream kernel, set/clear/*_bit (part
> of arch/powerpc/include/asm/bitops.h) shouldn't be probed. 

It would be nice to get a backport of this patch into older popular kernels.

> Its not clear how to
> add a set of inline functions in a header file in the blacklist in one go.

See tapsets.cxx:build_blacklist().


> d. The functioncallcount.stp needs to be modified to just probe .call and not
> inlines.

Sure.


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