* Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
> Ftrace was one of the last W^X violators (and KLP it seems). These here
> patches
> move it over to the generic text_poke() interface and thereby get rid of this
> oddity.
>
> The first 6 or so patches are more or less the same as in v3, except it has
> the
> bugs fixed that Steve found:
>
> - boot time function tracing works
> - module loading with function tracing works
>
> Then there's 10 new patches, that go all over the place, mostly inspired by
> staring at code touched by the first 6. That is, there's further ftrace and
> kprobes cleanups, as well fixes for various issues.
>
> In the end, it will have removed the horrible set_all_modules_text_*()
> interface and reduced the ftrace module loading to a single callback (again).
>
> The ARM patch is compiled only, I would be much obliged if someone could test
> that.
Ok, this looks all around like a nice improvement to me, and fixes a few
bugs as well.
Steve, any objections to this series? If not I'll stick it into
tip:core/kprobes with a tentative v5.5 upstream merge target.
Thanks,
Ingo
