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author | AKASHI Takahiro | 2014-04-30 11:54:34 +0200 |
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committer | Will Deacon | 2014-05-29 10:08:33 +0200 |
commit | bd7d38dbdf356e75eb3b1699158c9b8021fd6784 (patch) | |
tree | edad0afa91c1774cfaba6319b319d65db244123d /arch/arm64/xen | |
parent | arm64: Add ftrace support (diff) | |
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arm64: ftrace: Add dynamic ftrace support
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.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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