Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys ktr.h src/sys/conf options src/sys/kern kern_ktr.c src/sys/i386/conf LINT

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 12:59:00PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I don't understand the problem.  I am not logging stack pointers, and
>     you can log as few or as many arguments as you want, up to the 40 byte
>     limit.

Argh, partly my fault :) OK, let me say it differently. I think this really
will hit us once we want to support strict alignment platforms, since the
simple IA32 modell for variadic arguments might not work there. The compiler
can create padding between the arguments and it would be very difficult to
trace such cases down. That's one reason why the original KTR was restricted
to basically pointers and things which can be casted into pointers.

Another, much more important issue is that you removed the ability to
compile only a single trace point in. That's perhaps the most important
feature of KTR after all. When I'm interested in malloc, I don't want to
get all the data from the network stack for example.

Joerg