From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758572AbYKWMug (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:50:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756292AbYKWMu1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:50:27 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:60226 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754582AbYKWMu0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:50:26 -0500 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:49:58 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] powerpc: make mcount a stub for dynamic ftrace Message-ID: <20081123124958.GM29663@elte.hu> References: <20081120215541.489725873@goodmis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081120215541.489725873@goodmis.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Steven Rostedt wrote: > Paul, > > I have one more patch. I added it to the end of the ppc/ftrace > branch. The new way of handling the finding of mcounts means we do > not need to do anything in the mcount call itself. It should just be > a stub and when ftrace is enabled, it will change the caller sites > to call something other than mcount. > > The following patches are in: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git > > branch: ppc/ftrace i've also pulled the ppc/ftrace branch into tip/tracing/powerpc, and added it to ftrace-next's linux-next integration rules. So if Paul gives the green light that the commits have the right structure, we can freeze down the branch and the SHA1's and integrate it into ftrace-next. (which is integrated in linux-next after the powerpc tree so should be all fine in terms of merge ordering) Ingo