Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Feb 2016 11:31:54 -0600 | From | Josh Poimboeuf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] ftrace/module: remove ftrace module notifier |
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On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 10:08:16PM -0500, 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>
This is also fixing the bug described in the cover letter, so it would be good to add a description of that here and a corresponding "Fixes:" tag.
-- Josh
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