[PATCH 0/7][RFC] function graph tracer port to PowerPC

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Fri Feb 13 03:31:44 EST 2009


On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:10:51PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > The following set of patches are RFC and not for inclusion
> > (unless everyone is fine with them as is).
> > 
> > This is the port to PowerPC of the function graph tracer that was written
> > by Frederic Weisbecker for the x86 architecture.  It is broken up
> > into a series of logical steps.
> > 
> > 1) get generic code ready for other archs
> > 2) get PowerPC 64-bit working with just static function tracing
> > 3) get PowerPC 64-bit working with dynamic function tracing
> > 4) get PowerPC 32-bit working with just static function tracing
> > 5) get PowerPC 32-bit working with dynamic function tracing
> > 
> > (with some clean ups in between)
> > 
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot Steven!
> I'm sad to not having a Power Pc to test it...

BTW, Can I count that as an Acked-by: for the first patch. Since the first 
patch does modify your code.

-- Steve




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