linux-kernel - Re: x86-32: Early microcode loading stumbles over disabled DYNAMIC

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Message-ID: <20130830132525.06a944e8@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:25:25 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	x86 <x86@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: x86-32: Early microcode loading stumbles over disabled
 DYNAMIC_FTRACE

On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:16:00 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
 
> > Who uses static tracing? I only use it to test that it still works ;-)
> 
> Can we get rid of it?
> 

I've though about it. But as some archs only have static tracing
available (I need to revisit to make sure that's still the case), I
kept it because I only test static tracing on x86.

I'm not sure if people still use it for x86 or not.

Jan, you use static tracing on x86?

-- Steve
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