diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 99283b2dcfd6..e1214b9dc990 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -330,6 +330,20 @@ config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
 	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
 
+config FUNCTION_SELF_TRACING
+	bool "Function trace tracing code"
+	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
+	help
+	  Normally all the tracing code is set to notrace, where the function
+	  tracer will ignore all the tracing functions. Sometimes it is useful
+	  for debugging to trace some of the tracing infratructure itself.
+	  Enable this to allow some of the tracing infrastructure to be traced
+	  by the function tracer. Note, this will likely add noise to function
+	  tracing if events and other tracing features are enabled along with
+	  function tracing.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config FPROBE
 	bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)"
 	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS && HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Makefile b/kernel/trace/Makefile
index dcb4e02afc5f..fc5dcc888e13 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/trace/Makefile
@@ -16,6 +16,23 @@ obj-y += trace_selftest_dynamic.o
 endif
 endif
 
+# Allow some files to be function traced
+ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_SELF_TRACING
+CFLAGS_trace_output.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+CFLAGS_trace_seq.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+CFLAGS_trace_stat.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+CFLAGS_tracing_map.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+CFLAGS_synth_event_gen_test.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+CFLAGS_trace_events.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+CFLAGS_trace_syscalls.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+CFLAGS_trace_events_filter.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+CFLAGS_trace_events_trigger.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+CFLAGS_trace_events_synth.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+CFLAGS_trace_events_hist.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+CFLAGS_trace_events_user.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+CFLAGS_trace_dynevent.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+endif
+
 ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
 CFLAGS_trace_kprobe_selftest.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
 obj-$(CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS) += trace_kprobe_selftest.o