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

2008-11-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote: Steven Rostedt writes: Can I add your Acked-by: to all these patches that I submitted? I'm going to recommit them with a consistent subject (all lower case ppc), but I'm not going to change

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

2008-11-19 Thread Paul Mackerras
Ingo Molnar writes: and it's all in flux (we are in the middle of the development cycle), so i dont think it would be a good idea for you to pull those bits into the powerpc tree. Quite. OK, it does sound like this stuff needs to live in your tree for now, and from the diffstat it doesn't

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

2008-11-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: 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

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

2008-11-19 Thread Paul Mackerras
Ingo Molnar writes: * Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote: Steven Rostedt writes: Can I add your Acked-by: to all these patches that I submitted? I'm going to recommit them with a consistent subject (all lower case ppc),

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

2008-11-18 Thread Steven Rostedt
Paul and Benjamin, Can I add your Acked-by: to all these patches that I submitted? I'm going to recommit them with a consistent subject (all lower case ppc), but I'm not going to change the patches themselves. Would you two be fine with that? Or at least one of you? -- Steve

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

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Mackerras
Steven Rostedt writes: Can I add your Acked-by: to all these patches that I submitted? I'm going to recommit them with a consistent subject (all lower case ppc), but I'm not going to change the patches themselves. Would you two be fine with that? Or at least one of you? My preference

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

2008-11-18 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote: Steven Rostedt writes: Can I add your Acked-by: to all these patches that I submitted? I'm going to recommit them with a consistent subject (all lower case ppc), but I'm not going to change the patches themselves. Would you two be fine

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

2008-11-17 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote: Steven Rostedt writes: The following patches are for my work on porting the new dynamic ftrace framework to PowerPC. The issue I had with both PPC64 and PPC32 is that the calls to mcount are 24 bit jumps. Since the modules are loaded in

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

2008-11-17 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote: I've tested the following patches on both PPC64 and PPC32. I will admit that the PPC64 does not seem that stable, but neither does the code when all this is not enabled ;-) I'll debug it more to

[PATCH 0/7] Porting dynmaic ftrace to PowerPC

2008-11-16 Thread Steven Rostedt
The following patches are for my work on porting the new dynamic ftrace framework to PowerPC. The issue I had with both PPC64 and PPC32 is that the calls to mcount are 24 bit jumps. Since the modules are loaded in vmalloc address space, the call to mcount is farther than what a 24 bit jump can

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

2008-11-16 Thread Paul Mackerras
Steven Rostedt writes: The following patches are for my work on porting the new dynamic ftrace framework to PowerPC. The issue I had with both PPC64 and PPC32 is that the calls to mcount are 24 bit jumps. Since the modules are loaded in vmalloc address space, the call to mcount is farther