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Date:   Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:44:52 +0200
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 07:33:08AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Anyway, I believe Nadav has some patches that converts ftrace to use
> the shadow page modification trick somewhere.
> 
> Or we also need the text_poke batch processing (did that get upstream?).

It did. And I just did that patch; I'll send out in a bit.

It seems to work, but this is the very first time I've looked at this
code.