Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 23.128.96.18 as permitted sender) client-ip=23.128.96.18;
Date:   Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:00:02 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To:     Yinan Liu <yinan@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com, peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] scripts: ftrace - move the sort-processing in
 ftrace_init to compile time
Message-ID: <20211025110002.1f109a9f@gandalf.local.home>
In-Reply-To: <d0d5d491-41f5-09a4-ac3d-ebefa37a741b@linux.alibaba.com>
References: <20210911135043.16014-1-yinan@linux.alibaba.com>
        <20210911135043.16014-2-yinan@linux.alibaba.com>
        <20210911095937.5a298619@rorschach.local.home>
        <0b783c9e-c129-6907-0637-5c7638158a65@linux.alibaba.com>
        <20211008194821.3b6a18a4@oasis.local.home>
        <1d069626-1aed-6244-b932-7853e832eb70@linux.alibaba.com>
        <d0d5d491-41f5-09a4-ac3d-ebefa37a741b@linux.alibaba.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Precedence: bulk

On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 21:20:47 +0800
Yinan Liu <yinan@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:

> At present, it seems that the processing of compile-time sorting is only 
> suitable for vmlinux but not suitable for modules. Please review the 
> code of mcount sorting in vmlinux, thank you.

Agreed that only the vmlinux compile time sorting makes sense, and leave
the sorting of modules to the module load time.

I'll see if I can review your patches this week.

-- Steve