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Is CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE safe?

Is CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE safe?

Posted Oct 17, 2008 4:33 UTC (Fri) by nevets (subscriber, #11875)
In reply to: Is CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE safe? by tetromino
Parent article: Probable e1000e corruption culprit found (and 2.6.27.1 released)

Yes you are safe.

The CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE is just a way for the architecture to tell the rest of the kernel that it supports dynamic ftrace. The x86 architecture supports it, so that will always be enabled on an x86 build.


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