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Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2008 23:15:59 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...hat.com
Subject: Re: next-20081106: today's ftrace episode

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 03:03:26PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>> On m68k-amiga:
>>
>>   CC      arch/m68k/kernel/asm-offsets.s
>> In file included from include/linux/fs.h:287,
>>                  from include/linux/ftrace.h:5,		<===
>>                  from include/linux/hardirq.h:7,
>>                  from include2/asm/system.h:69,
>>                  from include/linux/list.h:7,		<===
>>                  from include/linux/preempt.h:11,
>>                  from include/linux/spinlock.h:50,
>>                  from include/linux/seqlock.h:29,
>>                  from include/linux/time.h:8,
>>                  from include/linux/timex.h:57,
>>                  from include/linux/sched.h:54,
>>                  from arch/m68k/kernel/asm-offsets.c:12:
>> include/linux/wait.h:37: error: field 'task_list' has incomplete type
>> 	...
>>
>> commit 7e5e26a3d8ac4bcadb380073dc9604c07a9a6198 aka "trace: fix hardirq header for non ftrace archs"
>>
>>
>>   
> We only need to include the ftrace.h to declare the ftrace_nmi_enter and  
> exit.
>
> I could separate that out into its own "ftrace_irq.h" file, that  
> hardirq.h can include. That should fix it.
>
> basically all that would be needed in that file is this:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
>    extern void ftrace_nmi_enter(void);
>    extern void ftrace_nmi_exit(void);
> #else
>    static inline void ftrace_nmi_enter(void) { }
>    static inline void ftrace_nmi_exit(void) { }
> #endif /* CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE */

Oh, this is only for that.

Here is patch that allows m68k to compile, I've came up with.

--- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_FTRACE_H
 #define _LINUX_FTRACE_H
 
+#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
+#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
 #include <linux/linkage.h>
-#include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/ktime.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
-#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
 
 extern int ftrace_enabled;
 extern int
@@ -236,7 +234,7 @@ static inline void
 ftrace_init_module(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end) { }
 #endif
 
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_BOOT_TRACER
 struct boot_trace {
 	pid_t			caller;
 	char			func[KSYM_NAME_LEN];
@@ -246,12 +244,10 @@ struct boot_trace {
 	ktime_t			rettime;
 };
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_BOOT_TRACER
 extern void trace_boot(struct boot_trace *it, initcall_t fn);
 extern void start_boot_trace(void);
 extern void stop_boot_trace(void);
 #else
-static inline void trace_boot(struct boot_trace *it, initcall_t fn) { }
 static inline void start_boot_trace(void) { }
 static inline void stop_boot_trace(void) { }
 #endif
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -728,6 +728,7 @@ core_param(initcall_debug, initcall_debug, bool, 0644);
 
 int do_one_initcall(initcall_t fn)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_BOOT_TRACER
 	int count = preempt_count();
 	ktime_t delta;
 	char msgbuf[64];
@@ -768,6 +769,9 @@ int do_one_initcall(initcall_t fn)
 	}
 
 	return it.result;
+#else
+	return fn();
+#endif
 }
 
 
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