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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:48:15 +0100
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 5/7] arm64: ftrace: Add dynamic ftrace support
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 05:45:51AM +0000, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> This patch allows "dynamic ftrace" if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE is enabled.
> Here we can turn on and off tracing dynamically per-function base.
>
> On arm64, this is done by patching single branch instruction to _mcount()
> inserted by gcc -pg option. The branch is replaced to NOP initially at
> kernel start up, and later on, NOP to branch to ftrace_caller() when
> enabled or branch to NOP when disabled.
> Please note that ftrace_caller() is a counterpart of _mcount() in case of
> 'static' ftrace.
>
> More details on architecture specific requirements are described in
> Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt.
>
> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Will
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