From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace: powerpc: remove startup functions from tracing
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:50:46 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224204646.7654.52.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0810162046570.20570@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 20:48 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> The early init code in PowerPC is not mapped to their final locations
> and all jumps and memory references must be done with relative jumps
> and accesses.
>
> The lib files in the powerpc directory are called in early boot, and
> since mcount will perform direct access to memory, the lib files need
> not be traced.
This is annoying though, because that means things like memcpy,
copy_to_from_user etc... can't be traced. On the other hand a lot
of that is asm and already doesn't call mcount.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-17 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-06 5:06 [PATCH 0/2] ftrace: fixes for PPC Steven Rostedt
2008-09-06 5:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] ftrace: use ftrace_release for all dynamic ftrace functions Steven Rostedt
2008-09-06 5:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] ftrace: fix unlocking of hash Steven Rostedt
2008-09-06 12:03 ` [PATCH 0/2] ftrace: fixes for PPC Ingo Molnar
2008-10-16 18:14 ` Josh Boyer
2008-10-16 18:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-16 18:35 ` Josh Boyer
2008-10-16 18:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-16 18:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-16 19:01 ` Josh Boyer
2008-10-20 16:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-20 17:08 ` Josh Boyer
2008-10-20 17:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-20 17:42 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-10-20 17:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-20 21:47 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-10-17 0:48 ` [PATCH] ftrace: powerpc: remove startup functions from tracing Steven Rostedt
2008-10-17 0:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-10-17 1:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-17 5:37 ` [PATCH 0/2] ftrace: fixes for PPC Chris Friesen
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