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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	x86 <x86@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: x86-32: Early microcode loading stumbles over disabled DYNAMIC_FTRACE
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:33:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5220D787.1060304@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130830132525.06a944e8@gandalf.local.home>

On 2013-08-30 19:25, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:16:00 -0700
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>  
>>> Who uses static tracing? I only use it to test that it still works ;-)
>>
>> Can we get rid of it?
>>
> 
> I've though about it. But as some archs only have static tracing
> available (I need to revisit to make sure that's still the case), I
> kept it because I only test static tracing on x86.
> 
> I'm not sure if people still use it for x86 or not.
> 
> Jan, you use static tracing on x86?

Yes, due to out-of-tree code that is not compatible with dynamic
tracing. It might be feasible to change this, I didn't try again
recently. If static tracing goes away upstream, I'll have to sooner or
later.

Jan

-- 
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-30 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-23 16:40 x86-32: Early microcode loading stumbles over disabled DYNAMIC_FTRACE Jan Kiszka
2013-08-23 20:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-26  8:50   ` Jan Kiszka
2013-08-30 15:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-30 15:51   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-30 16:35     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-30 17:03       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-30 17:16         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-30 17:25           ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-30 17:33             ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2013-08-30 20:48         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-31  0:17           ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-31  5:07             ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-31  5:23               ` Steven Rostedt

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