| Date | Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:26:37 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -v5 00/17] Rewrite x86/ftrace to use text_poke (and more) |
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On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:12:52 +0100 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> Ftrace is one of the last W^X violators (after this only KLP is left). These > patches move it over to the generic text_poke() interface and thereby get rid > of this oddity. > > The first 14 patches are the same as in the -v4 posting. The last 3 patches are > new. > > Will, patch 13, arm/ftrace, is unchanged. This is because this way it preserves > behaviour, but if you can provide me a tested-by for the simpler variant I can > drop that in. > > Patch 15 reworks ftrace's event_create_dir(), which ran module code before the > module was finished loading (before we even applied jump_labels and all that). > > Patch 16 and 17 address minor review feedback. > > Ingo, Alexei wants patch #1 for some BPF stuff, can he get that in a topic branch?
Hi Peter,
I ran this through my entire test suite and it actually passed :-)
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> (for the series, at least the x86 and generic part).
I'm still reviewing this series, I had some questions about patch 5 that I sent out already.
-- Steve
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