Agreed. Once I receive more comments I will make a new patch set and
include this change as well.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Steven Rostedt [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:25:09 +0100
Alexander Potapenko [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

--- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h

@@ -762,6 +762,26 @@ struct ftrace_graph_ret {
 typedef void (*trace_func_graph_ret_t)(struct ftrace_graph_ret *); /* return */
 typedef int (*trace_func_graph_ent_t)(struct ftrace_graph_ent *); /* entry */

+#if defined(CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) || defined(CONFIG_KASAN)
+/*
+ * We want to know which function is an entrypoint of a hardirq.
+ */
+#define __irq_entry           __attribute__((__section__(".irqentry.text")))
+#define __softirq_entry  \
+     __attribute__((__section__(".softirqentry.text")))
+
+/* Limits of hardirq entrypoints */
+extern char __irqentry_text_start[];
+extern char __irqentry_text_end[];
+/* Limits of softirq entrypoints */
+extern char __softirqentry_text_start[];
+extern char __softirqentry_text_end[];
+
+#else
+#define __irq_entry
+#define __softirq_entry
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER

 /* for init task */

Since this is no longer just used for function tracing, perhaps the
code should be moved to include/linux/irq.h or something.

-- Steve

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