From: rostedt@goodmis.org (Steven Rostedt)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v6 5/8] kernel: tracepoints: add support for relative references
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 10:42:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171228104207.117ee0ff@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171227085033.22389-6-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 08:50:30 +0000
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
> To avoid the need for relocating absolute references to tracepoint
> structures at boot time when running relocatable kernels (which may
> take a disproportionate amount of space), add the option to emit
> these tables as relative references instead.
>
I gave this patch a quick skim over. It appears to not modify anything
when CONFIG_HAVE_PREL32_RELOCATIONS is not defined. I haven't
thoroughly reviewed it or tested it. But if it doesn't break anything,
I'm fine giving you an ack.
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-28 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-27 8:50 [PATCH v6 0/8] add support for relative references in special sections Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-27 8:50 ` [PATCH v6 1/8] arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power, x86, s390 and x86 Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-27 19:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-12-27 19:59 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-27 8:50 ` [PATCH v6 2/8] module: use relative references for __ksymtab entries Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-27 20:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-12-27 20:11 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-27 20:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-12-27 20:24 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-28 12:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-12-28 12:39 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-29 6:42 ` kbuild test robot
2017-12-27 8:50 ` [PATCH v6 3/8] init: allow initcall tables to be emitted using relative references Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-27 8:50 ` [PATCH v6 4/8] PCI: Add support for relative addressing in quirk tables Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-27 8:50 ` [PATCH v6 5/8] kernel: tracepoints: add support for relative references Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-28 15:42 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2017-12-28 23:24 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-27 8:50 ` [PATCH v6 6/8] kernel/jump_label: abstract jump_entry member accessors Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-27 8:50 ` [PATCH v6 7/8] arm64/kernel: jump_label: use relative references Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-27 8:50 ` [PATCH v6 8/8] x86/kernel: jump_table: " Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-28 16:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-12-28 16:26 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-28 16:39 ` Steven Rostedt
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