[PATCH v3 1/2] powerpc: split ftrace bits into a separate file

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Thu Mar 16 00:11:16 AEDT 2017


On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:35:16 +0530
"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> I don't have a strong opinion about this, but I feel that x86 can simply 
> use ftrace_64.S, seeing as the current name is mcount_64.S.
> 
> Other architectures could do something similar too, or fall back to 
> ftrace_hook.S. That way, all ftrace low-level code can simply be 
> referred to as arch/*/ftrace_*.S

Just to clarify, I'm currently working on patches to clean up the
ftrace.S code in x86, and I renamed mcount_64.S to ftrace_64.S. I'm
also moving the ftrace code out of entry_32.S into a ftrace_32.S file
as well. Patches will hopefully be posted soon.

-- Steve


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