linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] ftrace/samples: Add module to test multi direct modify interface

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Date:   Mon, 6 Dec 2021 12:25:37 +0100
From:   Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ftrace/samples: Add module to test multi direct
 modify interface

On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 12:20:36AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> Adding ftrace-direct-multi-modify.ko kernel module that uses
> modify_ftrace_direct_multi API. The core functionality is taken
> from ftrace-direct-modify.ko kernel module and changed to fit
> multi direct interface.
> 
> The init function creates kthread that periodically calls
> modify_ftrace_direct_multi to change the trampoline address
> for the direct ftrace_ops. The ftrace trace_pipe then shows
> trace from both trampolines.
> 
> Also adding SAMPLE_FTRACE_MULTI_DIRECT to enable build of
> direct multi interface sample modules. It's used in Makefile,
> but not defined at the moment.
> 
> Same as for ftrace-direct-multi.ko, the new module is enabled
> only for x86_64, so there's no need to ifdef the inlined assembly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
> ---
>  samples/Kconfig                             |   8 ++
>  samples/ftrace/Makefile                     |   1 +
>  samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-multi-modify.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 114 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-multi-modify.c

I think your series is based on something before 5.16-rc2?

Because there are:
503e45108451 ("ftrace/samples: add missing Kconfig option for ftrace direct multi sample")
890e3dc8bb6e ("ftrace/samples: add s390 support for ftrace direct multi sample")

Which would conflict with your patches.