Re: [PATCH 0/7] Porting dynmaic ftrace to PowerPC

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Steven Rostedt wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:

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Maybe Steve could do the following trick: create a Linus -git based 
branch that uses the new APIs but marks ppc's ftrace as "depends 0" in 
the powerpc Kconfig. (the new ftrace.c wont build)

There's only two generic commits that need to be added for the PowerPC 
code to work.

  ftrace: pass module struct to arch dynamic ftrace functions
  ftrace: allow NULL pointers in mcount_loc

I've already ported them to mainline to test PowerPC there.
Paul could use these two versions and keep ftrace in a separate branch in 
his tree. This way all the PowerPC code will be there, and actually can be 
tested. They may still hit the same bugs that we have fixed in tip, but 
those should all be minor, since any major bug is already in mainline or 
on its way.

I just pushed all the PowerPC patches on top of this port it works.
I still need to rework the patches for Paul.

-- Steve