linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 00/16] ftrace for MIPS

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Date:	Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:48:31 +0100
From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@...il.com>
Cc:	rostedt@...dmis.org, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>,
	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@...glemail.com>,
	Patrik Kluba <kpajko79@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>,
	"Maciej W . Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	zhangfx@...ote.com, zhouqg@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/16] ftrace for MIPS

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

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

    [PATCH v8 01/16] tracing: convert trace_clock_local() as weak function
    [PATCH v8 06/16] tracing: add an endian argument to
    [PATCH v8 07/16] tracing: add dynamic function tracer support for MIPS
    [PATCH v8 09/16] tracing: define a new __time_notrace annotation flag
    [PATCH v8 10/16] tracing: not trace the timecounter_read* in

  Ralf
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