Re: [PATCH v8 0/5] arm64: ftrace with regs

Mark Rutland
2019-10-16T17:58:49Z

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 01:42:59PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2019, Mark Rutland wrote:
>
> > > > > > So what's the status now? Besides debatable minor style
> > > > > > issues there were no more objections to v8. Would this
> > > > > > go through the ARM repo or via the ftrace repo?
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry agains for the delay on this. I'm now back in the office and in
> > > > > front of a computer daily, so I can spend a bit more time on this.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regardless of anything else, I think that we should queue the first
> > > > > three patches now. I've poked the relevant maintainers for their acks so
> > > > > that those can be taken via the arm64 tree.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm happy to do the trivial cleanups on the last couple of patches (e.g.
> > > > > s/lr/x30), and I'm actively looking at the API rework I requested.
> > > >
> > > > Ok, I've picked up patches 1-3 and I'll wait for you to spin updates to the
> > > > last two.
> > >
> > > Ok, I see that patches 1-3 are picked up and are already present in recent
> > > kernels.
> > >
> > > Is there any progress on remaining two patches?
> >
> > I'm afraid that I've been distracted on other fronts, so I haven't made
> > progress there.
> >
> > > Any help required?
> >
> > If you'd be happy to look at the cleanup I previously suggested for the
> > core, that would be great. When I last looked, it was simple to rework
> > things so that arch code doesn't have to define MCOUNT_ADDR, but I
> > hadn't figured out exactly how to split the core mcount assumptions from
> > the important state machine bits.
> >
> > I'll take another look and see if I can provide more detail. :)
>
> Hi Mark,

Hi Jiri,

> has any progress been made on any front? Feels like this got stuck a bit.

Sorry about this; I've been a bit distracted.

I've just done the core (non-arm64) bits today, and pushed that out:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git/log/?h=arm64/ftrace-with-regs

... I'll fold the remainging bits of patches 4 and 5 together tomorrow
atop of that.

Thanks,
Mark.