On Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:40:57 -0700 Song Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Steven, > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 6:08 PM Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:20:37 -0700 > > Song Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Do you plan to apply this set to the trace tree (after the merge window, > > > I guess)? If not, how should we proceed? > > > > I can take it if we get all the necessary acks, or it can go through > > the BPF tree. Either way is fine with me. > > > If you prefer me to take it (as I do have a lot of ftrace specific > > tests), I'll do it. But I'd like acks from maintainers of all the code > > this touches. > > I think this should go through the ftrace tree. It has very little to do with > BPF. We discovered the need for this change when building live patches. > > Regarding ACKs, it is a bit tricky. For the code we touched in this set, > there is actually no behavior change at all. OTOH, the real change > happens to "inline"s that we didn't touch in this set. If such a function > was left out-of-line by the compiler, it was not traceable before, but is > traceable after this set. How should we approach this? Maybe we can > just ask ACKs from the maintainers of all the code touched here. >
OK, I'll just add it to Linux next around -rc2 then. -- Steve
