linux-kernel - Re: Removing entry trampoline and associated reversions

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Date:   Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:42:42 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Removing entry trampoline and associated reversions

[gah -- accidentally hit send]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> We had an unfortunate conflict.  Adrian did all the plumbing to get
> entry_trampoline to play nicelyh with kcore and perf.  Meanwhile, I
> was working on getting rid of the entry trampoline.  Adrian's code is
> merged and mine is finally in good shape, and there's an obvious
> conflict.
>
> So I did a bunch of reverts, all but one of which were clean.  The
> series is here:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/log/?h=x86/pti
>
> and the messy revert is here:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/commit/?h=x86/pti&id=50ef6380e448650b48db979d7d1f20a325b0a273

Is this the right approach?