Re: [PATCH] fgraph: Use CPU hotplug mechanism to initialize idle shadow stacks

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:11:16 +0100
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:

> This patch regressed boot-time tracing for me.
> 
> How to reproduce:
> - Enable CONFIG_FTRACE, CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER,
>   CONFIG_BOOTTIME_TRACING
> - Pass command line
>   ftrace=function_graph ftrace_graph_filter=do_idle
>   to make ftrace trace this function all through the boot process.
> 
> Before this patch:
> 
> cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
> cat trace
> 
> gives a nice trace of all invocations of do_idle() during boot.
> 
> After this patch:
> 
> cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
> cat trace
> 
> Gives an empty trace :(
> 
> And:
> 
> cat current_tracer
> function_graph
> cat set_graph_function
> do_idle
> cat tracing_on
> 1
> 
> So all *is* set up, just not performing
> 
> I tried to figure out why this happens but I'm not good with tracing
> internals. Any ideas?

Thanks for the report. I'm currently at the ELISA workshop this week,
but will try to reproduce it.

-- Steve