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The amount of memory that ftrace uses to save the descriptors to manage the functions it can trace is shown at output. But if there are a lot of functions that are skipped because they were weak or the architecture added holes into the tables, then the extra pages that were allocated are freed. But these freed pages are not reflected in the numbers shown, and they can even be inconsistent with what is reported: ftrace: allocating 57482 entries in 225 pages ftrace: allocated 224 pages with 3 groups The above shows the number of original entries that are in the mcount_loc section and the pages needed to save them (225), but the second output reflects the number of pages that were actually used. The two should be consistent as: ftrace: allocating 56739 entries in 224 pages ftrace: allocated 224 pages with 3 groups The above also shows the accurate number of entires that were actually stored and does not include the entries that were removed. Cc: bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu> Cc: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com> Cc: Martin Kelly <martin.kelly@crowdstrike.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250218200023.221100846@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.