[PATCH 0/2] ftrace: fixes for PPC

Ingo Molnar mingo at elte.hu
Sat Sep 6 22:03:47 EST 2008


* Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org> wrote:

> I spent the day chasing a bug that would hang PPC on boot up when 
> ftrace is configured in. I found that it was simply a stupid bug I did 
> to handle the non MCOUNT_RECORD case. Since I was testing only on x86, 
> and the MCOUNT_RECORD is automatically set for dynamic ftrace if it is 
> available, I did not test the case where MCOUNT_RECORD was not set.
> 
> I have not finished porting MCOUNT_RECORD to PPC, but have found that 
> it has caused some issues for archs that do not support it yet.
> 
> This patch series handles these cases.

applied to tip/tracing/ftrace, thanks Steve.

	Ingo



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