Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Oct 2019 10:43:35 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] x86/ftrace: Use text_poke() |
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On Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:17:21 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> Move ftrace over to using the generic x86 text_poke functions; this > avoids having a second/different copy of that code around. > > This also avoids ftrace violating the (new) W^X rule and avoids > fragmenting the kernel text page-tables, due to no longer having to > toggle them RW. > > Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> > Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> > ---
BTW, I'd really like to take this patch series through my tree. That way I can really hammer it, as well as I have code that will be built on top of it.
I'll review the other series in this thread, but I'm assuming they don't rely on this series? Or do they?
-- Steve
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