linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] recordmcount cleanups

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Date:   Fri, 2 Aug 2019 13:47:12 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Matt Helsley <mhelsley@...are.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] recordmcount cleanups

On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:24:08 -0700
Matt Helsley <mhelsley@...are.com> wrote:

> recordmcount presents unnecessary challenges to reviewers:
> 
> 	It pretends to wrap access to the ELF file in
> 	uread/uwrite/ulseek functions which aren't related
> 	the way you might think (i.e. not the way read, write,
> 	and lseek are releated to each other).
> 
> 	It uses setjmp/longjmp to handle errors (and success)
> 	during processing of the object files. This makes it
> 	hard to review what functions are doing, how globals
> 	change over time, etc.
> 
> 	There are some kernel style nits.
> 
> This series addresses all of those by removing un-helper functions,
> unused parameters, and rewriting the error/success handling to
> better resemble regular kernel C code.
> 

I applied these patches to my queue.

I pushed them to my repo on branch ftrace/core

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace.git

But note, that this branch will rebase, probably on top of v5.3-rc3
when it comes out.

-- Steve