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Commit 452938cb authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "Masami found an off by one bug in the code that keeps "notrace"
  functions from being traced by kprobes. During my testing, I found
  that there's places that we may want to add kprobes to notrace, thus
  we may end up changing this code before 4.19 is released.

  The history behind this change is that we found that adding kprobes to
  various notrace functions caused the kernel to crashed. We took the
  safe route and decided not to allow kprobes to trace any notrace
  function.

  But because notrace is added to functions that just cause weird side
  effects to the function tracer, but are still safe, preventing kprobes
  for all notrace functios may be too much of a big hammer.

  One such place is __schedule() is marked notrace, to keep function
  tracer from doing strange recursive loops when it gets traced with
  NEED_RESCHED set. With this change, one can not add kprobes to the
  scheduler.

  Masami also added code to use gcov on ftrace"

* tag 'trace-v4.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing/kprobes: Fix to check notrace function with correct range
  tracing: Allow gcov profiling on only ftrace subsystem
parents 815f0ddb 9161a864
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