Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] kernel: tracepoints: add support for relative references

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Wed Aug 30 2017 - 14:26:17 EST




> On 30 Aug 2017, at 19:13, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 19:10:35 +0100
> Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> To avoid the need for relocating absolute references to tracepoint
>> structures at boot time when running relocatable kernels (which may
>> take a disproportionate amount of space), add the option to emit
>> these tables as relative references instead.
>>
>> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I ran this through various tests (not my full test suite mind you), and
> it appears to work as it has before.
>
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks!