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Commit 819e50e2 authored by AKASHI Takahiro's avatar AKASHI Takahiro Committed by Will Deacon
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arm64: Add ftrace support



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: default avatarGanapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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