[PATCH 1/7] ftrace, PPC: do not latency trace idle
    Paul Mackerras 
    paulus at samba.org
       
    Mon Nov 17 14:43:24 EST 2008
    
    
  
Steven Rostedt writes:
> When idle is called, interrupts are disabled, but the idle function
> will still wake up on an interrupt. The problem is that the interrupt
> disabled latency tracer will take this call to idle as a latency.
> 
> This patch disables the latency tracing when going into idle.
Patch looks OK, but what is the connection with ftrace?
Paul.
    
    
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