How to disable tracing at runtime from the Linux kernel command line?

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Linux folks,


I am trying to reduce the boot time of a standard Linux distribution 
kernel. Currently, distributions â at least Debian und Ubuntu â enable 
function tracing.

```
CONFIG_FTRACE=y
CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y
CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER=y

CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING=y
```

This is great, as it makes it easy to use tracing to hunt down things 
holding up the boot. But it also skews the boot time quite a lot.

```
$ sudo dmesg
[â]
[    0.318412] initcall init_graph_trace+0x0/0x64 returned 0 after 
199218 usecs
[â]
[    1.770287] calling  event_trace_init+0x0/0x2c2 @ 1
[    2.052871] initcall event_trace_init+0x0/0x2c2 returned 0 after 
275942 usecs
[â]
```

Is there a way to disable tracing on the Linux kernel command line to 
disable tracing?


Kind regards,

Paul