Ftraced always polls once a minute even when no tracer is active

[Theodore Ts'o]

I noticed with powertop that ftraced waks up once a second, even if no
tracer is active.  Is there a reason why the kernel thread can't be
suspended in that case?

Thanks, regards,

						- Ted


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