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From: rabin@rab.in (Rabin Vincent)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ftrace - add ftrace function_graph support on ARM
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:45:55 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=33EUPFLzTr3zRHL1+CEm7JpqU18cFzzmpbAsG@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101011082535.GA26355@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> And now to go back to the original question I asked: What is __irq_entry
> used for?

It's used to identify when we're inside the interrupt handling path.
Depending upon the tracing options ("funcgraph-irqs"), this can be
excluded from the trace output.

> If it's to identify those functions which can't be traced through because
> of the stack layout, that's true of all __exception marked functions -
> so we might as well make the linker symbols for irqentry alias the
> exception text symbols.
>
> I see nothing special of just the three functions you mention that warrant
> them being handled separately by ftrace.

See above.  The funcgraph-irqs option is supposed to only affect the
interrupt handling path, not all exception handling.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-11 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-06  0:36 [PATCH 2/2] ftrace - add ftrace function_graph support on ARM Tim Bird
2010-03-06 20:18 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-10-09 17:50   ` Rabin Vincent
2010-10-09 19:37     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-10-10 22:06       ` Rabin Vincent
2010-10-11  8:25         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-10-11 17:15           ` Rabin Vincent [this message]
     [not found] <4B91A25E.5030707@am.sony.com>
2010-10-09 17:43 ` Rabin Vincent

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