return -EBUSY;
        }
 
-       /*
-        * The curr_ret_stack is an index to ftrace return stack of
-        * current task.  Its value should be in [0, FTRACE_RETFUNC_
-        * DEPTH) when the function graph tracer is used.  To support
-        * filtering out specific functions, it makes the index
-        * negative by subtracting huge value (FTRACE_NOTRACE_DEPTH)
-        * so when it sees a negative index the ftrace will ignore
-        * the record.  And the index gets recovered when returning
-        * from the filtered function by adding the FTRACE_NOTRACE_
-        * DEPTH and then it'll continue to record functions normally.
-        *
-        * The curr_ret_stack is initialized to -1 and get increased
-        * in this function.  So it can be less than -1 only if it was
-        * filtered out via ftrace_graph_notrace_addr() which can be
-        * set from set_graph_notrace file in tracefs by user.
-        */
-       if (current->curr_ret_stack < -1)
-               return -EBUSY;
-
        calltime = trace_clock_local();
 
        index = ++current->curr_ret_stack;
-       if (ftrace_graph_notrace_addr(func))
-               current->curr_ret_stack -= FTRACE_NOTRACE_DEPTH;
        barrier();
        current->ret_stack[index].ret = ret;
        current->ret_stack[index].func = func;
 
 
        TRACE_GRAPH_DEPTH_START_BIT,
        TRACE_GRAPH_DEPTH_END_BIT,
+
+       /*
+        * To implement set_graph_notrace, if this bit is set, we ignore
+        * function graph tracing of called functions, until the return
+        * function is called to clear it.
+        */
+       TRACE_GRAPH_NOTRACE_BIT,
 };
 
 #define trace_recursion_set(bit)       do { (current)->trace_recursion |= (1<<(bit)); } while (0)
 
        int cpu;
        int pc;
 
+       if (trace_recursion_test(TRACE_GRAPH_NOTRACE_BIT))
+               return 0;
+
+       if (ftrace_graph_notrace_addr(trace->func)) {
+               trace_recursion_set(TRACE_GRAPH_NOTRACE_BIT);
+               /*
+                * Need to return 1 to have the return called
+                * that will clear the NOTRACE bit.
+                */
+               return 1;
+       }
+
        if (!ftrace_trace_task(tr))
                return 0;
 
 
        ftrace_graph_addr_finish(trace);
 
+       if (trace_recursion_test(TRACE_GRAPH_NOTRACE_BIT)) {
+               trace_recursion_clear(TRACE_GRAPH_NOTRACE_BIT);
+               return;
+       }
+
        local_irq_save(flags);
        cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
        data = per_cpu_ptr(tr->trace_buffer.data, cpu);
 {
        ftrace_graph_addr_finish(trace);
 
+       if (trace_recursion_test(TRACE_GRAPH_NOTRACE_BIT)) {
+               trace_recursion_clear(TRACE_GRAPH_NOTRACE_BIT);
+               return;
+       }
+
        if (tracing_thresh &&
            (trace->rettime - trace->calltime < tracing_thresh))
                return;