linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: Remove PPC32 wart from config TRACING

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Date:   Wed, 2 May 2018 08:50:13 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Remove PPC32 wart from config TRACING_SUPPORT

On Wed,  2 May 2018 21:29:48 +1000
Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au> wrote:

> config TRACING_SUPPORT has an exception for PPC32, because PPC32
> didn't have irqflags tracing support.
> 
> But that hasn't been true since commit 5d38902c4838 ("powerpc: Add
> irqtrace support for 32-bit powerpc") (Jun 2009).
> 
> So remove the exception for PPC32 and the comment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>

Feel free to take this patch through the PPC tree.

Thanks!

-- Steve

> ---
>  kernel/trace/Kconfig | 6 +-----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> index c4f0f2e4126e..dd6c0a2ad969 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> @@ -110,11 +110,7 @@ config GENERIC_TRACER
>  #
>  config TRACING_SUPPORT
>  	bool
> -	# PPC32 has no irqflags tracing support, but it can use most of the
> -	# tracers anyway, they were tested to build and work. Note that new
> -	# exceptions to this list aren't welcomed, better implement the
> -	# irqflags tracing for your architecture.
> -	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC32
> +	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
>  	depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
>  	default y
>