Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/urgent

Pull an ftrace Kconfig help text fix from Steve Rostedt.

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 36567564e221..b516a8e19d51 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -429,24 +429,28 @@ 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