Re: [PATCH] ftrace: perform an initialization for ftrace to enableit

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Oct 28 2008 - 14:16:32 EST



* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Impact: Corrects a bug which made the function tracer not functionnal
>
> With latest git, the function tracer didn't get any trace. The
> problem was the fact that ftrace_enabled wasn't initialized to 1
> because ftrace hasn't any init function when DYNAMIC_FTRACE is
> disabled. So when a tracer tries to register an ftrace_ops struct,
> __register_ftrace_function failed to set the hook.
>
> This patch corrects it by setting an init function to initialize
> ftrace during the boot.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>

applied to tip/tracing/urgent, thanks Frederic!

Ingo
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