Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/2] x86: make jump labels use int3-basedbreakpoint instead of stop_machine()

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Jul 11 2013 - 15:55:04 EST


On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 21:23 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> > Thus you would need to do something like:
>
> Yup, I have been looking at the ftrace implementation and came to this
> conclusion; thanks for confirmation.
> That's exactly why I wanted to postpone converting ftrace before agreement
> on text_poke_bp() is reached and jump labels are converted.

Note, there's also debug output that ftrace prints when things go wrong.
As really strange things can happen when things don't work, those debug
prints are crucial, and I don't want to lose them.

But we'll discuss that after we get this first round in.

-- Steve


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