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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 2/3] ftrace: introduce nohotpatch function attribute
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 09:42:28AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 07:19:42 +0100
> Dominik Vogt <vogt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>  
> > While the kernel may use only profiling or hotpatch at the same
> > time, Gcc is able to generate both for the same function.
> 
> Understood, but would that be useful for the kernel?

Right now not. We may change that anyway in the future if needed.

Steven, how do we proceed with this small series?

Since there don't seem to be any objections, I'll repost with the
changed notrace define. However I think the whole stuff should go
upstream via the ftrace tree. Is that ok with you?

FWIW, the s390 gcc hotpatch feature was merged in the meantime:
https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=11762b8363737591bfb9c66093bc2edf289b917f