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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace/x86: Fix function graph tracer reset path
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 21:19:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160516191918.GC16265@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160516151357.73fca76a@gandalf.local.home>

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 03:13:57PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I actually thought about this first, but I thought it rather a hack
> (although one could argue all of function tracing is a hack ;-)

... I was about to say...

> But as the "weak" call was used to fix one location, why not use
> it here too. Being consistent, and also making sure all calls to
> ftrace_stub do the same.

Btw, arch_static_branch_jump() spells that 5-byte JMP too and not until
too long ago we had it in static_cpu_has()...

I guess after spending some time with the kernel, one can't really
differentiate hacks from proper design anymore. :-P

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
-- 

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-16 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-13 13:53 [PATCH] ftrace/x86: Fix function graph tracer reset path Namhyung Kim
2016-05-13 14:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-05-15 21:41   ` Matt Fleming
2016-05-15  0:41 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2016-05-15 13:06   ` Namhyung Kim
     [not found]     ` <20160516175614.53e0ceed3ec0880526fa1799@kernel.org>
2016-05-16 12:32       ` Namhyung Kim
2016-05-16 13:58         ` Steven Rostedt
2016-05-16 14:24           ` Namhyung Kim
2016-05-16 19:03             ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-16 19:13               ` Steven Rostedt
2016-05-16 19:19                 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2016-05-16 19:23                   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-05-16 19:52           ` Matt Fleming
2016-05-16 22:08           ` Masami Hiramatsu

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