Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:26:15 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] ftrace: handle NMIs safely |
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* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > > > > > The robustness of ftrace has been the focus of the code modification > > > in 2.6.28. There is one remaining issue that needed to be addressed. > > > This was the case of NMIs. > > > > applied to tip/tracing/nmisafe, thanks Steve! > > > > this looks a lot nicer approach than either putting some sort of lock > > into NMI context (yuck) or the disabling of NMIs (not really possible > > in a generic way architecturally). > > > > the impact is quite non-trivial, so i dont think this is v2.6.28 > > material. > > Ingo, > > Do you want me to send patches on top of these to address Andrew's > comements? Or do you want me to resend these with the updates. > > I prefer to send patches on top, that way Andrew can make sure I did > his changes correctly ;-)
yeah, please do it that way. It's a separate topic so we can fold them back if they are also bugfixes. (and they are all cleanliness related and i wanted to see the stability impact ASAP)
Ingo
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