Re: [PATCH v7 04/10] ppc64 ftrace_with_regs configuration variables

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:23:06 +0100
Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >From 2b0fcb678d7720d03f9c9f233b61ed9ed4d420b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001  
> From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:03:03 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] ftrace: Allow to explicitly disable the build of the dynamic
>  ftrace with regs
> 
> This patch allows to explicitly disable
> CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS. We will need to do so on
> PPC with a broken gcc. This situation will be detected at
> buildtime and could not be handled by Kbuild automatically.

Wait. Can it be detected at build time? That is, does it cause a build
error? If so, then you can have Kbuild automatically detect this and
set the proper value. We do this with 'asm goto'. There's tricks in the
build system that can change the configs based on if a compiler is
broken or not.


> 
> Also it fixes the prompt of DYNAMIC_FTRACE. The uppercase
> better fits the style of the other menu entries.

s/fixes/updates/

-- Steve

> 
> This patch does not change the default value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@xxxxxx>
> ---