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

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Mon Aug 15 2022 - 11:36:17 EST


On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 8:28 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 08:17:42AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > It's hiding a fake function from ftrace, since it's not a function
> > and ftrace infra shouldn't show it tracing logs.
> > In other words it's a _notrace_ function with nop5.
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> Then make it a notrace function with a nop5 in it. That isn't hard.

That's exactly what we're trying to do.
Jiri's patch is one way to achieve that.
What is your suggestion?
Move it from C to asm ?
Make it naked function with explicit inline asm?
What else?