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Subject[performance problem] CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE: Increased kernel build times

Steve,

i did an 64-bit allyesconfig build test (with debug_info disabled), with
and without CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE set.

The build time results are:

-CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE: 266.30
+CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE: 296.07 (+11.2%)

So we get more than 10% build time overhead.

That's quite high - higher than what i remember having measured
originally when the first iteration of the mcount code went in.

This extra overhead comes from the mcount post-processing script
(scripts/recordmcount.pl) that runs objcopy as well and is written in
Perl. I think this whole angle needs to be improved - 10% is way too
high of a price to pay.

Ingo


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