Re: [PATCH 0/2] ftrace: handle NMIs safely

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

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

> 
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > 
> > * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > The robustness of ftrace has been the focus of the code modification 
> > > in 2.6.28. There is one remaining issue that needed to be addressed. 
> > > This was the case of NMIs.
> > 
> > applied to tip/tracing/nmisafe, thanks Steve!
> > 
> > this looks a lot nicer approach than either putting some sort of lock 
> > into NMI context (yuck) or the disabling of NMIs (not really possible 
> > in a generic way architecturally).
> > 
> > the impact is quite non-trivial, so i dont think this is v2.6.28 
> > material.
> 
> Ingo,
> 
> Do you want me to send patches on top of these to address Andrew's 
> comements? Or do you want me to resend these with the updates.
> 
> I prefer to send patches on top, that way Andrew can make sure I did 
> his changes correctly ;-)

yeah, please do it that way. It's a separate topic so we can fold them 
back if they are also bugfixes. (and they are all cleanliness related 
and i wanted to see the stability impact ASAP)

	Ingo