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

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Jun 05 2018 - 12:04:15 EST


Em Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 06:00:46PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra escreveu:
> 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.

I was feeling daft, good to see you found that difficult to follow 8-)

- Arnaldo