Kernel Markers Aiming for 2.6.24 | Linux Today

Kernel Markers Aiming for 2.6.24

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 26, 2007

“Mathieu Desnoyers posted an updated version of his Linux Kernel
Markers patchset explaining, ‘following Christoph Hellwig’s
suggestion, aiming at a Linux Kernel Markers inclusion for 2.6.24,
I made a simplified version of the Linux Kernel Markers. There are
no more dependencies on any other patchset.’ He continued, ‘the
modification only involved turning the immediate values into static
variables and adapting the documentation accordingly. It will have
a little more data cache impact when disabled than the version
based on the immediate values, but it is far less complex…'”

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