MIPS: Tracing: Add static function tracer support for MIPS
authorWu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:34:29 +0000 (20:34 +0800)
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:57:21 +0000 (01:57 +0000)
commitd2bb0762993e11363d8343127516b8fe88f9006f
treef210c4c4b0234a776977e6d2b749384e1d3699c1
parent8922f79ee56e9dab6fc144defc0bc901ff0a7f8a
MIPS: Tracing: Add static function tracer support for MIPS

If -pg of gcc is enabled with CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y. a calling to
_mcount will be inserted into each kernel function. so, there is a
possibility to trace the kernel functions in _mcount.

This patch add the MIPS specific _mcount support for static function
tracing. by default, ftrace_trace_function is initialized as
ftrace_stub(an empty function), so, the default _mcount will introduce
very little overhead. after enabling ftrace in user-space, it will jump
to a real tracing function and do static function tracing for us.

and -ffunction-sections is incompatible with -pg, so, disable it when
ftracer is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/672/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
arch/mips/Kconfig
arch/mips/Makefile
arch/mips/include/asm/ftrace.h
arch/mips/kernel/Makefile
arch/mips/kernel/mcount.S [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/mips/kernel/mips_ksyms.c