Re: [PATCH 04/10] ARM: ftrace: allow building without framepointers

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 12:19 +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> With a new enough GCC, ARM function tracing can be supported without the
> need for frame pointers.  This is essential for Thumb-2 support, since
> frame pointers aren't available then.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@xxxxxx>

> diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> index 13e13d4..e10519f 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ if FTRACE
>  config FUNCTION_TRACER
>  	bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
>  	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
> -	select FRAME_POINTER
> +	select FRAME_POINTER if (!ARM_UNWIND)

I'm fine with this if the ARM maintainers are.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve

>  	select KALLSYMS
>  	select GENERIC_TRACER
>  	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER



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