The new option for function tracing aims to save space on the ring buffer and to make it more readable in the case when a single function is called number of times consecutively:
while (cond) do_func(); Instead of having an identical records for each call of the function we will record only the first call, followed by an event showing the number of repeats. v2 changes: * As suggested by Steven in his review, we now record not only the repetition count, but also the time elapsed between the last repetition of the function and the actual generation of the "func_repeats" event. 16 bits are used to record the repetition count. In the case of an overflow of the counter a second pair of "function" and "func_repeats" events will be generated. The time interval gets codded by using up to 48 (32 + 16) bits. Yordan Karadzhov (VMware) (5): tracing: Define new ftrace event "func_repeats" tracing: Add "last_func_repeats" to struct trace_array tracing: Add method for recording "func_repeats" events tracing: Unify the logic for function tracing options tracing: Add "func_no_repeats" option for function tracing kernel/trace/trace.c | 29 +++++ kernel/trace/trace.h | 25 ++++ kernel/trace/trace_entries.h | 28 +++++ kernel/trace/trace_functions.c | 222 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- kernel/trace/trace_output.c | 47 +++++++ 5 files changed, 324 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) -- 2.25.1