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@@ -238,19 +238,15 @@ You need very few things to get the syscalls tracing in an arch.
- Tag this arch as HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS.
-HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
--------------------------
+HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
+-------------------
See scripts/recordmcount.pl for more info. Just fill in the arch-specific
details for how to locate the addresses of mcount call sites via objdump.
This option doesn't make much sense without also implementing dynamic ftrace.
-
-HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
--------------------
-
-You will first need HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD and HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER, so
-scroll your reader back up if you got over eager.
+You will first need HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER, so scroll your reader back up if you
+got over eager.
Once those are out of the way, you will need to implement:
- asm/ftrace.h: