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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/Kconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index 6430016b98e8..cad9db1dee02 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -88,3 +88,20 @@ config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER This tracer gets called from the context switch and records all switching of tasks. +config DYNAMIC_FTRACE + bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically" + depends on FTRACE + default y + help + This option will modify all the calls to ftrace dynamically + (will patch them out of the binary image and replaces them + with a No-Op instruction) as they are called. A table is + created to dynamically enable them again. + + This way a CONFIG_FTRACE kernel is slightly larger, but otherwise + has native performance as long as no tracing is active. + + The changes to the code are done by a kernel thread that + wakes up once a second and checks to see if any ftrace calls + were made. If so, it runs stop_machine (stops all CPUS) + and modifies the code to jump over the call to ftrace. |
