From 60a7ecf42661f2b22168751298592da6ee210c9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:05:44 -0500 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 6f20718..d09e812 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ config X86 select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER + select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST select HAVE_KVM if ((X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER && !X86_VISWS && !X86_NUMAQ) || X86_64) select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB if !X86_VOYAGER select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK -- cgit v1.1