On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:18:05PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote: > Hi Torsten, > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:49:46PM +0100, Torsten Duwe wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:11:04AM +0000, Julien Thierry wrote: > > > Hi Torsten, > > > > > > On 08/02/2019 15:08, Torsten Duwe wrote: > > > > Patch series v8, as discussed. > > > > The whole series applies cleanly on 5.0-rc5 > > > > So what's the status now? Besides debatable minor style > > issues there were no more objections to v8. Would this > > go through the ARM repo or via the ftrace repo? > > Sorry, I have some half-written review comments that I will clean up and > send shortly. Ping? > As commented on prior versions, I'd very much like to see the > MCOUNT_ADDR hack go, by teaching the core ftrace code to not assume that > an mcount symbol exists. > We should be able to do that by separating the notion of NOPing a patch > site from the notion of initializing it for the first time. This is generally a good idea, and would affect other architectures as well, see arch/s390/kernel/ftrace.c ftrace_make_nop(...) I propose to do this in a second round. Torsten
