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authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2010-10-13 17:12:30 -0400
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2010-10-14 16:52:41 -0400
commit72441cb1fd77d092f09ddfac748955703884c9a7 (patch)
tree3b02aecebf718f1cb6e9752b809e825b237527da /kernel/trace
parent81d3858d3131a589cade0d8b57f95cc1fc699b89 (diff)
downloadlinux-72441cb1fd77d092f09ddfac748955703884c9a7.tar.gz
ftrace/x86: Add support for C version of recordmcount
This patch adds the support for the C version of recordmcount and
compile times show ~ 12% improvement.

After verifying this works, other archs can add:

 HAVE_C_MCOUNT_RECORD

in its Kconfig and it will use the C version of recordmcount
instead of the perl version.

Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/Kconfig5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 538501c6ea50..df00fbbaf609 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
 	help
 	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
 
+config HAVE_C_MCOUNT_RECORD
+	bool
+	help
+	  C version of recordmcount available?
+
 config TRACER_MAX_TRACE
 	bool