On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 22:54:23 +0530 "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For x86, commit 0c0593b45c9b4e ("x86/ftrace: Make function graph use > ftrace directly") also adds recursion check before the call to > function_graph_enter() in prepare_ftrace_return(). Do we need that on > powerpc as well? Yes. The function_graph_enter() does not provide any recursion protection, so if it were to call something that gets function graph traced, it will crash the machine. -- Steve