On Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:17:21 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
> Move ftrace over to using the generic x86 text_poke functions; this > avoids having a second/different copy of that code around. > > This also avoids ftrace violating the (new) W^X rule and avoids > fragmenting the kernel text page-tables, due to no longer having to > toggle them RW. > > Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> > Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bris...@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> > --- BTW, I'd really like to take this patch series through my tree. That way I can really hammer it, as well as I have code that will be built on top of it. I'll review the other series in this thread, but I'm assuming they don't rely on this series? Or do they? -- Steve
