Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86/ftrace: Use text_poke()

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Mon Oct 21 2019 - 23:55:30 EST


On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:16:30PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:10:09 -0700
> Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 5:43 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:36:54 -0700
> > > Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > What is the status of this set ?
> > > > Steven, did you apply it ?
> > >
> > > There's still bugs to figure out.
> >
> > what bugs you're seeing?
> > The IPI frequency that was mentioned in this thread or something else?
> > I'm hacking ftrace+bpf stuff in the same spot and would like to
> > base my work on the latest and greatest.
>
> There's real bugs (crashes), talked about in later versions of the
> patch set:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191009224135.2dcf7767@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> And there was another crash on Peter's latest I just reported:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191021222110.49044eb5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

ahh. I missed the whole thread. Thanks for pointers.