linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] ftrace: fixes for PPC

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Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:47:45 +0200
From:	"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	"Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ftrace: fixes for PPC

2008/10/20 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>:
> I believe MIPS has the same issues as PPC. Doesn't it use a trampoline
> too?

No it doesn't seem to. If I'm not wrong, MIPS uses only the elf
relocation table to relocate
its addresses.

> I want to make the generic code handle trampolines a bit better.

Do you think there could be a generic approach to handles these trampolines?
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