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Message-ID: <49CA5EA9.2080106@am.sony.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:41:13 -0700
From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@...il.com>,
linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: Anyone working on ftrace function graph support on ARM?
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Unwinding is not realistic or desired for the function tracer - it
> runs in every kernel function so performance is paramount.
>
> So, if i understood you correctly, an OABI_COMPAT and FRAME_POINTERS
> dependency has to be added to the ARM HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
> Kconfig rule.
This, unfortunately, is a problem for me. All my ARM
projects are now using EABI. If the unwinding looks like
it has too much overhead, I'll do some research on the
-finstrument-functions (__cyg_profile_func_enter/exit) approach.
I'm not sure, however, if it's possible to integrate this with
the dynamic tracing mechanisms, though. So something may have
to give to get this supported on ARM.
-- Tim
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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
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