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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] arm: make return_address available for ARM_UNWIND
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:23:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130103162359.GR2631@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1357229038.10284.46.camel@gandalf.local.home>

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 11:03:58AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 14:13 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > In summary, from what I can see in the patch, the reason why the ifdefs
> > are the way they are, and the reason the warning is there has not been
> > addressed; these patches just seem to be aimed just at removing a #warning
> > statement to make the warning go away.
> 
> You're correct that this patch does not solve any of theses issues. Now,
> I'm thinking that ftrace has matured where these issues don't exist, and
> where they do, it will only cause noise in the trace than anything
> serious. But, this needs to be looked deeper to make sure.

Looking back in the archives, it seems that we had a problem with ftrace
and the unwinder polluting the trace information:

http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20090604.201745.1c41ee6c.en.html

There's quite a bit of discussion in that thread about this which details
why we came up with what we have today.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-03 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-03 10:12 [PATCH 1/2] arm: fix returning wrong CALLER_ADDRx kpark3469 at gmail.com
2013-01-03 10:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm: make return_address available for ARM_UNWIND kpark3469 at gmail.com
2013-01-03 10:38   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-03 11:36     ` Keun-O Park
2013-01-03 13:36       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-03 14:13         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-03 16:03           ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-03 16:23             ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2013-01-03 16:58               ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-04  8:45                 ` Keun-O Park
2013-01-07 13:41                   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-11  8:53                     ` Keun-O Park
2013-01-11 22:04                       ` Steven Rostedt

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