Re: [PATCH -v6 05/13] tracing: enable HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST for MIPS

[Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 18:41 +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Wu Zhangjin wrote:
> 
> > There is an exisiting common ftrace_test_stop_func() in
> > kernel/trace/ftrace.c, which is used to check the global variable
> > ftrace_trace_stop to determine whether stop the function tracing.
> 
> > This patch implepment the MIPS specific one to speedup the procedure.
> 
> > Thanks goes to Zhang Le for Cleaning it up.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
> 
> [...]
> 
> > diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/mcount.S b/arch/mips/kernel/mcount.S
> > index 0c39bc8..5dfaca8 100644
> > --- a/arch/mips/kernel/mcount.S
> > +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/mcount.S
> > @@ -64,6 +64,10 @@
> >  	.endm
> >  
> >  NESTED(_mcount, PT_SIZE, ra)
> > +	lw	t0, function_trace_stop
> > +	bnez	t0, ftrace_stub
> > +	nop
> 
> 1) unless .set noreorder is specified in this file, explicit nop is not needed;
> 
> 2) delay slot instruction is usually denoted by adding extra space on its 
> left, like this:
> 
> 	bnez	t0, ftrace_stub
> 	 nop
> 

Okay, Will add an extra space for them later, thanks!

Regards,
	Wu Zhangjin