Re: ftraced and suspend to ram

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Aug 22 2008 - 16:25:00 EST


On Fri 2008-08-22 12:35:39, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 09:23:43AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > >
> > > * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > > The code in question is the ftraced() function in
> > > > > > kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks, I'll have a look in a while.
> > > >
> > > > Can you try the appended patch, please?
> > >
> > > makes sense - i've applied it to tip/tracing/urgent, see the tidied up
> > > commit below.
> > >
> > > It should be no big issue not being able to trace across suspend+resume
> > > - and that restriction will go away with Steve's build-time based mcount
> > > patching mechanism in v2.6.28.
> >
> > Patch looks okay to me, but I'm not sure if another issue is not
> > hiding under it. Did anyone actually test ftrace + suspend after
> > applying this?
>
> I just tested this patch - it didn't help ;(

Does ftrace hook itself onto _all_ the functions? Or all .c functions?

I guess low-level suspend code needs to be exempt from
tracing. Certainly all the assembly functions.
Pavel
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