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Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] ftrace/module: remove ftrace module notifier

From Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] ftrace/module: remove ftrace module notifier
Date 2016-02-08 15:20 +0100
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On Fri 2016-02-05 22:08:16, Jessica Yu wrote:
> Remove the ftrace module notifier in favor of directly calling
> ftrace_module_enable() and ftrace_release_mod() in the module loader.
> Hard-coding the function calls directly in the module loader removes
> dependence on the module notifier call chain and provides better
> visibility and control over what gets called when, which is important
> to kernel utilities such as livepatch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>

Best Regards,
Petr

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[PATCH v3 0/2] Fix ordering of ftrace/livepatch calls on module load and unload Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> - 2016-02-06 04:10 +0100
  [PATCH v3 2/2] livepatch/module: remove livepatch module notifier Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> - 2016-02-06 04:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] livepatch/module: remove livepatch module notifier Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2016-02-08 15:40 +0100
  [PATCH v3 1/2] ftrace/module: remove ftrace module notifier Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> - 2016-02-06 04:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] ftrace/module: remove ftrace module notifier Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2016-02-08 15:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] ftrace/module: remove ftrace module notifier Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-02-08 18:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Fix ordering of ftrace/livepatch calls on module  load and unload Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-02-08 18:50 +0100
    Re: Fix ordering of ftrace/livepatch calls on module load and unload Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> - 2016-02-08 19:00 +0100
      Re: Fix ordering of ftrace/livepatch calls on module load and  unload Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-02-08 19:10 +0100

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