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authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2008-11-05 16:05:44 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-06 07:50:51 +0100
commit60a7ecf42661f2b22168751298592da6ee210c9e (patch)
tree050fd052c546c92f8aac10ee71d5bb6d98a21fc8 /arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
parent79c81d220c8e25163f56edcdfaf23f83a4c88e6b (diff)
ftrace: add quick function trace stop
Impact: quick start and stop of function tracer This patch adds a way to disable the function tracer quickly without the need to run kstop_machine. It adds a new variable called function_trace_stop which will stop the calls to functions from mcount when set. This is just an on/off switch and does not handle recursion like preempt_disable(). It's main purpose is to help other tracers/debuggers start and stop tracing fuctions without the need to call kstop_machine. The config option HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST is added for archs that implement the testing of the function_trace_stop in the mcount arch dependent code. Otherwise, the test is done in the C code. x86 is the only arch at the moment that supports this. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
index 28b597ef9ca..9134de814c9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -1157,6 +1157,9 @@ ENTRY(mcount)
END(mcount)
ENTRY(ftrace_caller)
+ cmpl $0, function_trace_stop
+ jne ftrace_stub
+
pushl %eax
pushl %ecx
pushl %edx
@@ -1180,6 +1183,9 @@ END(ftrace_caller)
#else /* ! CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE */
ENTRY(mcount)
+ cmpl $0, function_trace_stop
+ jne ftrace_stub
+
cmpl $ftrace_stub, ftrace_trace_function
jnz trace
.globl ftrace_stub