From 3fd40d1ee6a317523172ab95b6f7ea41ba8fcee3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 22:42:57 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Use helper functions in event assignment to shrink macro size The functions that assign the contents for the ftrace events are defined by the TRACE_EVENT() macros. Each event has its own unique way to assign data to its buffer. When you have over 500 events, that means there's 500 functions assigning data uniquely for each event (not really that many, as DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() and multiple DEFINE_EVENT()s will only need a single function). By making helper functions in the core kernel to do some of the work instead, we can shrink the size of the kernel down a bit. With a kernel configured with 502 events, the change in size was: text data bss dec hex filename 12987390 1913504 9785344 24686238 178ae9e /tmp/vmlinux 12959102 1913504 9785344 24657950 178401e /tmp/vmlinux.patched That's a total of 28288 bytes, which comes down to 56 bytes per event. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120810034708.370808175@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- Reading git-format-patch failed