Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754204AbYKSMPh (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:15:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752566AbYKSMPY (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:15:24 -0500 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.124]:61936 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752408AbYKSMPX (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:15:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:15:21 -0500 (EST) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@gandalf.stny.rr.com To: Ingo Molnar cc: Paul Mackerras , LKML , Andrew Morton , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Porting dynmaic ftrace to PowerPC In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20081116212428.938752312@goodmis.org> <18720.42209.880409.297291@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <18723.31762.522696.647294@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20081119092723.GC22309@elte.hu> <18723.60578.179210.736789@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20081119105719.GA21533@elte.hu> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1259 Lines: 32 On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > Maybe Steve could do the following trick: create a Linus -git based > > branch that uses the new APIs but marks ppc's ftrace as "depends 0" in > > the powerpc Kconfig. (the new ftrace.c wont build) > > There's only two generic commits that need to be added for the PowerPC > code to work. > > ftrace: pass module struct to arch dynamic ftrace functions > ftrace: allow NULL pointers in mcount_loc > > I've already ported them to mainline to test PowerPC there. > Paul could use these two versions and keep ftrace in a separate branch in > his tree. This way all the PowerPC code will be there, and actually can be > tested. They may still hit the same bugs that we have fixed in tip, but > those should all be minor, since any major bug is already in mainline or > on its way. I just pushed all the PowerPC patches on top of this port it works. I still need to rework the patches for Paul. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/