From a14a07b8018b714e03a39ff2180c66e307ef4238 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shaohua Li Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:29:49 +0800 Subject: ftrace, ia64: IA64 dynamic ftrace support IA64 dynamic ftrace support. The original _mcount stub for each function is like: alloc r40=ar.pfs,12,8,0 mov r43=r0;; mov r42=b0 mov r41=r1 nop.i 0x0 br.call.sptk.many b0 = _mcount;; The patch convert it to below for nop: [MII] nop.m 0x0 mov r3=ip nop.i 0x0 [MLX] nop.m 0x0 nop.x 0x0;; This isn't completely nop, as there is one instuction 'mov r3=ip', but it should be light and harmless for code follow it. And below is for call [MII] nop.m 0x0 mov r3=ip nop.i 0x0 [MLX] nop.m 0x0 brl.many .;; In this way, only one instruction is changed to convert code between nop and call. This should meet dyn-ftrace's requirement. But this requires CPU support brl instruction, so dyn-ftrace isn't supported for old Itanium system. Assume there are quite few such old system running. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/ia64/Kconfig | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/ia64/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/ia64/Kconfig b/arch/ia64/Kconfig index b992ba447c4..e20c1d45930 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/ia64/Kconfig @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ config IA64 select HAVE_OPROFILE select HAVE_KPROBES select HAVE_KRETPROBES + select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD + select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if (!ITANIUM) select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS select HAVE_KVM -- cgit v1.2.3