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diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 16e5bb5daaa5..d7b2de744631 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -101,6 +101,16 @@ config SCHED_TRACER
           This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
           to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
 
+config NOP_TRACER
+        bool "NOP Tracer"
+        depends on HAVE_FTRACE
+        depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+        select TRACING
+        help
+          This tracer does nothing. The primary purpose for it is to
+          politely print the output of ftrace_printk() calls without
+          the overhead of an irrelevant trace taking place.
+
 config CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
         bool "Trace process context switches"
         depends on HAVE_FTRACE