Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core

Merge in all pending fixes, before pulling the latest development
bits from Arnaldo - which will involve merge conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 192473b22799..fc382d6e2765 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -414,24 +414,28 @@ config PROBE_EVENTS
 	def_bool n
 
 config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
-	bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically"
+	bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically"
 	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
 	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 	default y
 	help
-          This option will modify all the calls to ftrace dynamically
-	  (will patch them out of the binary image and replace them
-	  with a No-Op instruction) as they are called. A table is
-	  created to dynamically enable them again.
+	  This option will modify all the calls to function tracing
+	  dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and
+	  replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During
+	  compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace
+	  can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel
+	  image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually
+	  enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect
+	  performance of the system.
+
+	  See the files in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing:
+	    available_filter_functions
+	    set_ftrace_filter
+	    set_ftrace_notrace
 
 	  This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
 	  otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
 
-	  The changes to the code are done by a kernel thread that
-	  wakes up once a second and checks to see if any ftrace calls
-	  were made. If so, it runs stop_machine (stops all CPUS)
-	  and modifies the code to jump over the call to ftrace.
-
 config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
 	def_bool y
 	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE