pstore/ftrace: Convert to its own enable/disable debugfs knob

With this patch we no longer reuse function tracer infrastructure, now
we register our own tracer back-end via a debugfs knob.

It's a bit more code, but that is the only downside. On the bright side we
have:

- Ability to make persistent_ram module removable (when needed, we can
  move ftrace_ops struct into a module). Note that persistent_ram is still
  not removable for other reasons, but with this patch it's just one
  thing less to worry about;

- Pstore part is more isolated from the generic function tracer. We tried
  it already by registering our own tracer in available_tracers, but that
  way we're loosing ability to see the traces while we record them to
  pstore. This solution is somewhere in the middle: we only register
  "internal ftracer" back-end, but not the "front-end";

- When there is only pstore tracing enabled, the kernel will only write
  to the pstore buffer, omitting function tracer buffer (which, of course,
  still can be enabled via 'echo function > current_tracer').

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/pstore.h b/include/linux/pstore.h
index c892587d9b81..ee3034a40884 100644
--- a/include/linux/pstore.h
+++ b/include/linux/pstore.h
@@ -64,14 +64,6 @@ struct pstore_info {
 	void		*data;
 };
 
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_PSTORE_FTRACE
-extern void pstore_ftrace_call(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip);
-#else
-static inline void pstore_ftrace_call(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip)
-{ }
-#endif
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_PSTORE
 extern int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *);
 #else