Hello,

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:24:12AM -0700, Matt Helsley wrote:
> Recordmcount uses setjmp/longjmp to manage control flow as
> it reads and then writes the ELF file. This unusual control
> flow is hard to follow and check in addition to being unlike
> kernel coding style.
> 
> So we rewrite these paths to use regular return values to
> indicate error/success. When an error or previously-completed object
> file is found we return an error code following kernel
> coding conventions -- negative error values and 0 for success when
> we're not returning a pointer. We return NULL for those that fail
> and return non-NULL pointers otherwise.
> 
> One oddity is already_has_rel_mcount -- there we use pointer comparison
> rather than string comparison to differentiate between
> previously-processed object files and returning the name of a text
> section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <mhelsley@vmware.com>

This is 3f1df12019f333442b12c3b5d110b8fc43eb0b36 in mainline now.

I have the following problem:

	$ make ARCH=arm arch/arm/crypto/
	  Using /home/uwe/gsrc/linux as source for kernel
	  GEN     Makefile
	  CALL    /home/uwe/gsrc/linux/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
	  CALL    /home/uwe/gsrc/linux/scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
	  CC      arch/arm/crypto/aes-cipher-glue.o
	arch/arm/crypto/aes-cipher-glue.o: failed
	make[2]: *** [/home/uwe/gsrc/linux/scripts/Makefile.build:281: arch/arm/crypto/aes-cipher-glue.o] Error 1
	make[2]: *** Deleting file 'arch/arm/crypto/aes-cipher-glue.o'
	make[1]: *** [/home/uwe/gsrc/linux/Makefile:1792: arch/arm/crypto/] Error 2
	make: *** [/home/uwe/gsrc/linux/Makefile:179: sub-make] Error 2

and bisection points to 3f1df12019f333442b12c3b5d110b8fc43eb0b36.

This doesn't affect all files, most compile just fine. After calling the
compiler by hand to get aes-cipher-glue.o back I have:

uwe@taurus:~/arietta/kbuild$ ./scripts/recordmcount "arch/arm/crypto/aes-cipher-glue.o"
arch/arm/crypto/aes-cipher-glue.o: failed

I didn't debug this further, if you have problems reproducing or need more
infos tell me. The defconfig I'm using is attached.

Best regards
Uwe

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