Re: [PATCH 0/5] powerpc: dynamic ftrace port

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 20 2008 - 14:21:15 EST



* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> > 1) I removed the changes to recordmcount.pl. This is not a PowerPC
> > change, although PowerPC needs it for dynamic ftrace. But
> > the changes here can go via linux-tip.
>
> Ingo,
>
> I found that the recordmcount.pl change conflicts with a commit in
> linux-next, which is not in tip nor mainline. The commit is:
>
> 11ebca4a3f8337de2f4d1300bd307851d1191d53
> sh: dynamic ftrace support.
>
> Seems that this change came in through the sh repo. I have already
> resolved the conflicts with my updates for PowerPC with this commit.
> I can put this in a separate branch against linux-next if you like.
>
> I would like to get the changes to recordmcount.pl for PowerPC in
> linux-next soon, so I can also add a small clean up of this code.
> Jim Radfort has some updates as well for his port to arm.

Could you please extract the sh bits from 11ebca4a so that we can
apply it to tip/tracing/* standalone? It makes sense to carry it
without having the other bits of the SH changes.

It will collide in linux-next but it will be a same-content collision
with an easy enough (perhaps even automatic) resolution.

Ingo
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