From: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 23:49:44 -0400

> +#ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
> +_GLOBAL(mcount)
> +_GLOBAL(_mcount)
> +     stwu    r1,-48(r1)
> +     stw     r3, 12(r1)
> +     stw     r4, 16(r1)
> +     stw     r5, 20(r1)
> +     stw     r6, 24(r1)
> +     mflr    r3
> +     stw     r7, 28(r1)
> +     mfcr    r5
> +     stw     r8, 32(r1)
> +     stw     r9, 36(r1)
> +     stw     r10,40(r1)
> +     stw     r3, 44(r1)
> +     stw     r5, 8(r1)

Yikes, that's really expensive.

Can't you do a tail call and let the function you end
up calling do all the callee-saved register pops onto
the stack?

That's what I did on sparc.
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