Re: [PATCH v8 0/5] arm64: ftrace with regs

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Mon Mar 11 2019 - 08:18:12 EST


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.

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.

Thanks,
Mark.