* Steven Rostedt | 2013-09-07 20:48:11 [-0400]: >You wont be able to trace any function that is annotated with "__init", >or even "__exit". That's because the init section does not have a >standard way of cleaning them up (for boot, modules are different, but >are still affected by it). Is this even required / wanted? Usually the module just hooks itself into subsystem like pci_register_driver() and is usually not interresting. The interresting part starts from ->probe() (I think) and this is captured, right? >As ftrace modifies code, and it modifies locations of functions, it can >not safely modify code that suddenly disappeared without it knowing it, >otherwise you may end up with broken NIC cards. Hmmm. This sounds like you know what you are talking about :) >-- Steve Sebastian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
