linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Rewrite x86/ftrace to use text

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Message-ID: <20191008110737.73803008@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Tue, 8 Oct 2019 11:07:37 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mhiramat@...nel.org,
        bristot@...hat.com, jbaron@...mai.com,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mingo@...nel.org, namit@...are.com, hpa@...or.com, luto@...nel.org,
        ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org, jpoimboe@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Rewrite x86/ftrace to use text_poke()

On Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:17:16 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> Ftrace was one of the last W^X violators; these patches move it over to the
> generic text_poke() interface and thereby get rid of this oddity.
> 

Ingo, Thomas or H.Peter,

If it's OK with you, can you ack this series so that I can pull it
through my tree? I have some code that will conflict with this that I
want to write on top of it. As well as hammer it out to make sure
ftrace works fine.

Thanks!

-- Steve