On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 8:44 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 08:35:53 -0700 > Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Then make it a notrace function with a nop5 in it. That isn't hard. > > > > That's exactly what we're trying to do. > > Jiri's patch is one way to achieve that. > > What is your suggestion? > > Move it from C to asm ? > > Make it naked function with explicit inline asm? > > What else? > > The dispatcher is already in the kernel so it's too late to complain about > it. Jiri's patch (with my extensions) will hopefully fix the breakage BPF > did to ftrace. > > My ask now is to be more inclusive when doing anything that deals with > modification of text, or other infrastructures. This "go it alone" approach > really needs to stop. Linux is an open source project and collaboration is > key. I know you don't care about others use cases (as you told me in that > BPF meeting last year), but any maintainer in the Linux kernel must care > about the use case of others or this will all fail. Please don't misrepresent. Not cool.
