Re: [RFC] ftrace: Add support to keep some functions out of ftrace

[Jiri Olsa]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 10:03:17AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 03:02:52PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 23:18:15 +0200
> > Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > the patch below moves the bpf function into sepatate object and switches
> > > off the -mrecord-mcount for it.. so the function gets profile call
> > > generated but it's not visible to ftrace
> 
> Why ?!?

there's bpf dispatcher code that updates bpf_dispatcher_xdp_func
function with bpf_arch_text_poke and that can race with ftrace update
if the function is traced

the idea to solve it is to 'mark' the function independent of ftrace,
and add a way to make the function invissible to ftrace but with the
profile code fentry call generated

jirka