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 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.
Commit message from Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Some device drivers require the symbols _ebss, kernel_thread,
__page_offset or ___range_ok, so export them.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: John Linn <john.linn@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: John Williams <john.williams@petalogix.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Michal Simek
Arnd Bergmann