Hi Steve,

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 05:52:46PM +0100, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rost...@goodmis.org>
> 
> Nothing sets function_trace_stop to disable function tracing anymore.
> Remove the check for it in the arch code.
> 
> arm64 was broken anyway, as it had an ifdef testing
>  CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST which is only set if
> the arch supports the code (which it obviously did not), and
> it was testing a non existent ftrace_trace_stop instead of
> function_trace_stop.

Yeah, the current code is total crap. Well spotted.

> Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.aka...@linaro.org>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/entry-ftrace.S | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

  Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>

I'm happy for you to take this via the ftrace tree, along with the rest of
the series.

I successfully ran the ftrace self tests with this applied (on top of
"ftrace: Remove check for HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST"), but note
that I don't have a platform with working suspend/resume right now.

Cheers,

Will

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-ftrace.S 
> b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-ftrace.S
> index b051871f2965..1b1e330e6849 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-ftrace.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-ftrace.S
> @@ -96,11 +96,6 @@
>   *     - ftrace_graph_caller to set up an exit hook
>   */
>  ENTRY(_mcount)
> -#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST
> -     ldr     x0, =ftrace_trace_stop
> -     ldr     x0, [x0]                // if ftrace_trace_stop
> -     ret                             //   return;
> -#endif
>       mcount_enter
>  
>       ldr     x0, =ftrace_trace_function
> -- 
> 2.0.0
> 
> 
> 
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