Re: [PATCH] tracing: arm: arm64: Hide trace events ipi_raise, ipi_entry and ipi_exit

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Tue Jul 22 2025 - 15:26:42 EST


On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 10:37:14AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The ipi tracepoints are mostly generic, but the tracepoints ipi_raise,
> ipi_entry and ipi_exit are only used by arm and arm64. This means these
> trace events are wasting memory in all the other architectures that do not
> use them.
>
> Add CONFIG_HAVE_EXTRA_IPI_TRACEPOINTS and have arm and arm64 select it to
> enable these trace events. The config makes it easy if other architectures
> decide to trace these as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>