Re: [PATCH] tracing/kprobes: Do the notrace functions check without kprobes on ftrace

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed,  6 Jan 2021 12:20:40 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Enable the notrace function check on the architecture which doesn't
> support kprobes on ftrace. This notrace function check is not only
> for the kprobes on ftrace but also sw-breakpoint based kprobes.
> Thus there is no reason to limit this check for the arch which
> supports kprobes on ftrace.
> 
> This also changes the dependency of Kconfig. Because kprobe event
> uses the function tracer's address list for identifying notrace
> function, if the CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=n, it can not check whether
> the target function is notrace or not.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  

Thanks Masami,

I queued this up for testing, and will mark it for stable. I know it's a
minor fix, but it also shouldn't have much risk either.

-- Steve