Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/ftrace: make ftrace_int3_handler() not to skip fops invocation

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Apr 29 2019 - 16:11:58 EST


On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 12:07 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Are you suggesting that I rewrite the code to do it one function at a
> time? This has always been batch mode. This is not something new. The
> function tracer has been around longer than the text poke code.

Only do the 'call' instructions one at a time. Why would you change
_existing_ code?

Linus