Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:26:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Luotao Fu <l.fu@pengutronix.de>
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       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc7-rt2 [PATCH] latency tracer fix for ppc32
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Luotao Fu wrote:
>
> I found out that the tracer got stuck on ppc32 platforms because some early
> functions call _mcount before mcount_enabled is initialized at all. I made a
> patch, which marks these functions as notrace to solve this problem. With this
> patch I can successfully boot up our mpc5200b platform and make latency trace.
> (tested with -b switch in cyclictest). Please comment.
>
> I made my patch against the -rt2 tree since the dummy call early_printk() in
> -rt3 conflicts with our implementation of a functional early_printk(). It
> should also work with -rt3 though.
>

Thanks, applied.

But for future reference, if you attach your patch please name it with the
ending of .patch and not .diff. Also do it at a -p1 level and not -p0.

-- Steve

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