[PATCH 0/2] ftrace: fixes for PPC

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Tue Oct 21 04:53:11 EST 2008


On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Fr?d?ric Weisbecker wrote:

> There are other arch that support ftrace as well like sh or sparc64
> (I'm currently working on
> an implementation for mips).
> So the choice would be better between waiting for a fix or disable
> dynamic ftrace
> on Kconfig only for PowerPC.

Hi Frederic,

I believe MIPS has the same issues as PPC. Doesn't it use a trampoline 
too?  I want to make the generic code handle trampolines a bit better. 
This is one of the problems with developing in x86. It avoids a lot of the 
issues that other archs might have.

-- Steve




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