linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] ftrace/x86: Move the mcount/fentry code out of entry

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1405120938170.5813@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Mon, 12 May 2014 09:38:58 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ftrace/x86: Move the mcount/fentry code out of
 entry_64.S

On Thu, 8 May 2014, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> As the mcount code gets more complex, it really does not belong
> in the entry.S file. By moving it into its own file "mcount.S"
> keeps things a bit cleaner.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

I am obviously very happy about where this is heading :) hence FWIW

	Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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