Re: [PATCH 3/5] ftrace: enable mcount recording for modules

[Rusty Russell]

On Friday 08 August 2008 04:20:16 Steven Rostedt wrote:
> This patch enables the loading of the __mcount_section of modules and
> changing all the callers of mcount into nops.
>
> The modification is done before the init_module function is called, so
> again, we do not need to use kstop_machine to make these changes.

Importantly, before parameter parsing too (which can use module functions 
before the module's init()).

Cheers,
Rusty.
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