On Mon 2016-02-08 13:12:45, Torsten Duwe wrote:

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 11:34:06AM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:

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On Sat 2016-02-06 11:32:43, Torsten Duwe wrote:

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On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 05:18:34PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
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more complicated. Whem I think about it, the change below does similar
job and looks more strightforwad:

Had I only looked closer. That's exactly how I thought it would work
in the first place. I'd call that a fix. Full ACK from my side.

Feel free to merge this into your patch. Or do you want to do
this in a separate one, please?

My Kconfig/Makefile changes depend on it, but OTOH this change (Fix!)
is independent.

IMHO the right thing would be you resend your second mail from Feb-05,
with your sign-off, my ack, FWIW, and Steven checks it in ;-)

Please, find it below. I guess that it should be applied before
the check causing the build error. It will help to keep
the tree bisectable.

From 2b0fcb678d7720d03f9c9f233b61ed9ed4d420b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:03:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ftrace: Allow to explicitly disable the build of the dynamic
 ftrace with regs

This patch allows to explicitly disable
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS. We will need to do so on
PPC with a broken gcc. This situation will be detected at
buildtime and could not be handled by Kbuild automatically.

Also it fixes the prompt of DYNAMIC_FTRACE. The uppercase
better fits the style of the other menu entries.

This patch does not change the default value.

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Torsten Duwe <redacted>
---
 kernel/trace/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index a138f6d866ae..de6dab0f74f2 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig

@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ config PROBE_EVENTS
 	def_bool n
 
 config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
-	bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically"
+	bool "Enable/Disable function tracing dynamically"
 	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
 	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 	default y

@@ -472,9 +472,17 @@ config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 	  otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
 
 config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
-	def_bool y
+	bool "Pass registers to function tracer"
 	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
+	default y
+	help
+	  This option enables passing the current state of processor
+	  registers to the function tracer. It allows to do a more
+	  detailed analyze and print more information.
+
+	  Say Y here if you are unsure. The only exception is if
+	  you want to pass a build error caused by a broken compiler.
 
 config FUNCTION_PROFILER
 	bool "Kernel function profiler"

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