Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:19:30 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>, rostedt@goodmis.org,
       Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>,
       David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>,
       Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>,
       Patrik Kluba <kpajko79@gmail.com>, Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>,
       "Maciej W . Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zhangfx@lemote.com, zhouqg@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/16] ftrace for MIPS
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On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 02:30:31PM +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
> 
> Time to talk about how to get the whole thing merged.
> 
> I'm reasonably happy with the arch part of the patchset.  There are two
> remaining issues in the arch part - cache flushing will not work as is on
> a SMP system and the whole code patching is going to fail if the kernel
> text is replicated with CONFIG_REPLICATE_KTEXT which is an IP27-only option.
> 
> I suggest we should go ahready and just disallow dynamic ftrace on on
> these problematic configurations for now and deal with them later, so
> something like
> 
> 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if !SMP && !REPLICATE_KTEXT

Makes sense.
 
> This leaves the non-arch bits to merge; patches which touch code outside
> of arch/mips are:

I'm going to comment on the patches.

Thanks,

	tglx
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