Re: [PATCH V3 00/17] perf tools and x86 PTI entry trampolines

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jun 05 2018 - 12:01:10 EST


On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 12:29:43PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Arnaldo has queued the tools patches, but there are still 3 kernel patches:
> >
> > kallsyms: Simplify update_iter_mod()
> > kallsyms, x86: Export addresses of syscall trampolines

That one needs a changelog.

> > x86: Add entry trampolines to kcore
> >
> > Are there any further comments on these? Can they be applied?
>
> Would be interesting to have some acked-by from kernel folks :-\

Other than that, they look good I tihnk. The updatE_iter_mod thing took
me a few tries, so maybe something can be done to the changelog there
too, maybe explicitly mention the rule for the *mod_end things.