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Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:43:51 +1000
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
"Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@...g.org>,
Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] ftrace: enable mcount recording for modules
On Friday 08 August 2008 04:20:16 Steven Rostedt wrote:
> This patch enables the loading of the __mcount_section of modules and
> changing all the callers of mcount into nops.
>
> The modification is done before the init_module function is called, so
> again, we do not need to use kstop_machine to make these changes.
Importantly, before parameter parsing too (which can use module functions
before the module's init()).
Cheers,
Rusty.
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