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    ftrace/x86_32: Remove support for non DYNAMIC_FTRACE · 518049d9
    Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
    When DYNAMIC_FTRACE is enabled in the kernel, all the functions that can be
    traced by the function tracer have a "nop" placeholder at the start of the
    function. When function tracing is enabled, the nop is converted into a call
    to the tracing infrastructure where the functions get traced. This also
    allows for specifying specific functions to trace, and a lot of
    infrastructure is built on top of this.
    
    When DYNAMIC_FTRACE is not enabled, all the functions have a call to the
    ftrace trampoline. A check is made to see if a function pointer is the
    ftrace_stub or not, and if it is not, it calls the function pointer to trace
    the code. This adds over 10% overhead to the kernel even when tracing is
    disabled.
    
    When an architecture supports DYNAMIC_FTRACE there really is no reason to
    use the static tracing. I have kept non DYNAMIC_FTRACE available in x86 so
    that the generic code for non DYNAMIC_FTRACE can be tested. There is no
    reason to support non DYNAMIC_FTRACE for both x86_64 and x86_32. As the non
    DYNAMIC_FTRACE for x86_32 does not even support fentry, and we want to
    remove mcount completely, there's no reason to keep non DYNAMIC_FTRACE
    around for x86_32.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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