With dynamic function tracer, by default, _mcount is defined as an
"empty" function, it returns directly without any more action. When
enabling it in user-space, it will jump to a real tracing
function(ftrace_caller), and do the real job for us.
Differ from the static function tracer, dynamic function tracer provides
two functions ftrace_make_call()/ftrace_make_nop() to enable/disable the
tracing of some indicated kernel functions(set_ftrace_filter).
In the kernel version, there is only one "_mcount" string for every
kernel function, so, we just need to match this one in mcount_regex of
scripts/recordmcount.pl.
For more information please look at code and Documentation/trace folder.
Steven ACK that scripts/recordmcount.pl part.
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
If -pg of gcc is enabled with CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y. a calling to
_mcount will be inserted into each kernel function. so, there is a
possibility to trace the kernel functions in _mcount.
This patch add the specific _mcount support for static function
tracing. by default, ftrace_trace_function is initialized as
ftrace_stub(an empty function), so, the default _mcount will introduce
very little overhead. after enabling ftrace in user-space, it will jump
to a real tracing function and do static function tracing for us.
Commit message from Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
This is working implemetation but the problem is that
Microblaze misses frame pointer that's why is there
big loop which trace and show all addresses which are in text.
It shows addresses which are in registers, etc.
This is problem and this is the reason why all Microblaze
traces are wrong. There is an option to do hacks and trace
the kernel code but this is too complicated.
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Reviewed the Makefile on request by Michal and this is the resulting changes.
o Use ':=' for assignmnet so we do not re-evaluate for each use
o Use $(shell echo xxx) to remove ""
o Replaced CFLAGS_KERNEL with KBUILD_CFLAGS
The settings are equally relevant for modules and the linked kernel
o Dropped LDFLAGS_BLOB - it is no longer used
o Refactored assignmnets to libs-y and core-y
o Use MMU for the MMU specific extension. "MMUEXT" was hurting my eyes
and I did not wanted it spread to m68k
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: John Linn <john.linn@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: John Williams <john.williams@petalogix.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Michal Simek
Sam Ravnborg