linux-kernel - Re: [tip: x86/asm] x86/asm/ftrace: Mark function

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Date:   Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:31:25 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:     tip-bot2 for Jiri Slaby <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: [tip: x86/asm] x86/asm/ftrace: Mark function_hook as function

On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:48:56 +0200
Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> wrote:

> > The #define was because we use to support mcount or __fentry__, now we
> > just support __fentry__, and function_hook describes it better ;-)  
> 
> Well sorry but gcc documentation talks about __fentry__. I'd keep the
> same name to avoid confusion and explain above it what it is. Much
> better.

Still looks ugly ;-)

> 
> > Heh, I guess we could, which would probably be quite a long comment as
> > it's the key behind ftrace itself.  
> 
> Well, you can explain with a couple of sentences what it is and
> then point at the bigger document explaining ftrace. Provided, Mr.
> Rostedt, you'll stop doing talks and finally sit down and write that
> documentation!

I do the talks hoping someone else will finally sit down and write the
documentation!

-- Steve