[tip:tracing/core] tracing/function-graph-tracer: Drop the useless nmi protection

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Commit-ID:  07868b086cca784f4b532fc2ab574ec3a73b468a
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/07868b086cca784f4b532fc2ab574ec3a73b468a
Author:     Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:33:51 +0200
Committer:  Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 07:28:05 +0200

tracing/function-graph-tracer: Drop the useless nmi protection

The function graph tracer used to have a protection against NMI
while entering a function entry tracing. But this is useless now,
this tracer is reentrant and the ring buffer supports the NMI tracing.
We can then drop this protection.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>


---
 arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c |    4 ----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
index d94e1ea..8e96634 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -417,10 +417,6 @@ void prepare_ftrace_return(unsigned long *parent, unsigned long self_addr,
 	unsigned long return_hooker = (unsigned long)
 				&return_to_handler;
 
-	/* Nmi's are currently unsupported */
-	if (unlikely(in_nmi()))
-		return;
-
 	if (unlikely(atomic_read(&current->tracing_graph_pause)))
 		return;
 
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