[PATCH 3/7][RFC] powerpc64, tracing: add function graph tracer with dynamic tracing

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> 
> > @@ -55,8 +56,9 @@ static unsigned char *ftrace_call_replace(unsigned
> > long ip, unsigned long addr)
> >  	 */
> >  	addr = GET_ADDR(addr);
> >  
> > -	/* Set to "bl addr" */
> > -	op = 0x48000001 | (ftrace_calc_offset(ip, addr) & 0x03fffffc);
> > +	/* if (link) set op to 'bl' else 'b' */
> > +	op = 0x48000000 | (link ? 1 : 0);
> > +	op |= (ftrace_calc_offset(ip, addr) & 0x03fffffc);
> 
> Any reason why you aren't using the code in
> arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c here ?

Yes, because I did not know about it ;-)

I'll write up a patch to change this. But I'll post this series as is for 
now.

Thanks,

-- Steve