Re: [PATCH 0/5] [GIT PULL] updates for tip/tracing/ftrace

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> one thing to note is:
> 
>  <EOI>  [<ffffffff802b78ad>] ? ftrace_likely_update+0x1f/0x27
>  [<ffffffff8022cf88>] ? prepare_ftrace_return+0x3c/0x158
>  [<ffffffff8022d070>] ? prepare_ftrace_return+0x124/0x158
>  [<ffffffff8020c776>] ? ftrace_graph_caller+0x46/0x6d
>  [<ffffffff802a2cd8>] ? jhash+0x9/0x1e6
>  [<ffffffff802a30d9>] ? get_tracepoint+0x30/0x7f
>  [<ffffffff8020c79d>] ? return_to_handler+0x0/0x73
>  [<ffffffff8020db1c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
> 
> the branch profiler should be disabled inside ftrace ...

Actually, if the branch tracer is off (only profiling enabled) I actually 
used it to look at the conditions taken inside of ftrace. I prefer that it 
is not disabled. But obviously, we must disable it, if we do the branch 
tracing.

-- Steve

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