Hi Wolfram, On 01/25/18 03:03, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:55:13 -0800 > Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi Steve, > >> >> Off the top of your head, can you tell me know early in the boot >> process a trace_event can be called and successfully provide the >> data to someone trying to debug early boot issues? > > The trace events are enabled by early_initcall(). < snip > This means that ftrace can not be used for the of_node_get(), of_node_put(), and of_node_release() debug info, because these functions are called before early_initcall(). Please use pr_debug() for these functions. As far as I know, the of_reconfig_notify() could remain an ftrace instrumented function. But now that the only thing that would be ftrace instrumented is of_reconfig_notify(), I don't see a strong justification for changing the existing pr_debug() calls to an ftrace alternative. Though I suspect the original author of the patch still might desire to have the "#ifdef DEBUG" surrounding the pr_debug() calls removed since one of his issues was having to recompile his kernel to do his debugging. -Frank -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
