Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel. https://git.0xinfinity.dev/distro/kernel.git/atom?h=linux-3.17.y 2014-05-29T08:08:33Z 2014-05-29T08:08:33Z AKASHI Takahiro 2014-04-30T09:54:34Z urn:sha1:bd7d38dbdf356e75eb3b1699158c9b8021fd6784 This patch allows "dynamic ftrace" if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE is enabled. Here we can turn on and off tracing dynamically per-function base. On arm64, this is done by patching single branch instruction to _mcount() inserted by gcc -pg option. The branch is replaced to NOP initially at kernel start up, and later on, NOP to branch to ftrace_caller() when enabled or branch to NOP when disabled. Please note that ftrace_caller() is a counterpart of _mcount() in case of 'static' ftrace. More details on architecture specific requirements are described in Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt. Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> 2014-05-29T08:08:08Z AKASHI Takahiro 2014-04-30T09:54:33Z urn:sha1:819e50e25d0ce8a75f5cba815416a6a8573655c4 This patch implements arm64 specific part to support function tracers, such as function (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER), function_graph (CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) and function profiler (CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER). With 'function' tracer, all the functions in the kernel are traced with timestamps in ${sysfs}/tracing/trace. If function_graph tracer is specified, call graph is generated. The kernel must be compiled with -pg option so that _mcount() is inserted at the beginning of functions. This function is called on every function's entry as long as tracing is enabled. In addition, function_graph tracer also needs to be able to probe function's exit. ftrace_graph_caller() & return_to_handler do this by faking link register's value to intercept function's return path. More details on architecture specific requirements are described in Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt. Reviewed-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>