diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index 8465ad0..10c6dae 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -419,4 +419,52 @@
 
 extern struct tracer nop_trace;
 
+/**
+ * ftrace_preempt_disable - disable preemption scheduler safe
+ *
+ * When tracing can happen inside the scheduler, there exists
+ * cases that the tracing might happen before the need_resched
+ * flag is checked. If this happens and the tracer calls
+ * preempt_enable (after a disable), a schedule might take place
+ * causing an infinite recursion.
+ *
+ * To prevent this, we read the need_recshed flag before
+ * disabling preemption. When we want to enable preemption we
+ * check the flag, if it is set, then we call preempt_enable_no_resched.
+ * Otherwise, we call preempt_enable.
+ *
+ * The rational for doing the above is that if need resched is set
+ * and we have yet to reschedule, we are either in an atomic location
+ * (where we do not need to check for scheduling) or we are inside
+ * the scheduler and do not want to resched.
+ */
+static inline int ftrace_preempt_disable(void)
+{
+	int resched;
+
+	resched = need_resched();
+	preempt_disable_notrace();
+
+	return resched;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ftrace_preempt_enable - enable preemption scheduler safe
+ * @resched: the return value from ftrace_preempt_disable
+ *
+ * This is a scheduler safe way to enable preemption and not miss
+ * any preemption checks. The disabled saved the state of preemption.
+ * If resched is set, then we were either inside an atomic or
+ * are inside the scheduler (we would have already scheduled
+ * otherwise). In this case, we do not want to call normal
+ * preempt_enable, but preempt_enable_no_resched instead.
+ */
+static inline void ftrace_preempt_enable(int resched)
+{
+	if (resched)
+		preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace();
+	else
+		preempt_enable_notrace();
+}
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_KERNEL_TRACE_H */