From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1814 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2013 17:10:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 1805 invoked by uid 89); 5 Dec 2013 17:10:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from Unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:10:56 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rB5HAn10020143 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:10:49 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rB5HAlin027200; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:10:48 -0500 Message-ID: <52A0B397.9000402@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:10:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Tromey CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] make probes independent of the program space References: <1386100019-27379-1-git-send-email-tromey@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1386100019-27379-1-git-send-email-tromey@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-12/txt/msg00191.txt.bz2 On 12/03/2013 07:46 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: > This patch series changes SystemTap probes to be independent of the > program space, and then to be stored in the per-BFD object. That way, > they can be shared by all objfiles referring to a given BFD. This > saves memory and perhaps a bit of time, in the multi-inferior case. > > This is based on my similar patch series to make minimal symbols > independent of the program space: > > https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-10/msg00521.html > > This is part of the obj file splitting project: > > https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ObjfileSplitting > > I built and regtested the series on x86-64 Fedora 18. I read this series, and it looked excellent to me. I only wondered whether sal.objfile should be named sal.probe_objfile to avoid confusion, but I realized that down the road sal.objfile will probably end up set when sal.symtab is too, so I understand that choice. Or at least, I think I do. :-) -- Pedro Alves