From: tip-bot for Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com,
rostedt@goodmis.org, srostedt@redhat.com, mmarek@suse.cz,
tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: [tip:perf/core] kbuild/recordmcount: Add RECORDMCOUNT_WARN to warn about mcount callers
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:06:41 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-a3a8350ab2f588f3a7a08dc86658bf90773f9a52@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110421023738.714956282@goodmis.org>
Commit-ID: a3a8350ab2f588f3a7a08dc86658bf90773f9a52
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/a3a8350ab2f588f3a7a08dc86658bf90773f9a52
Author: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:59:10 -0400
Committer: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 17 May 2011 10:41:49 -0400
kbuild/recordmcount: Add RECORDMCOUNT_WARN to warn about mcount callers
When mcount is called in a section that ftrace will not modify it into
a nop, we want to warn about this. But not warn about this always. Now
if the user builds the kernel with the option RECORDMCOUNT_WARN=1 then
the build will warn about mcount callers that are ignored and will just
waste execution time.
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023738.714956282@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
Makefile | 1 +
scripts/Makefile.build | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 41ea6fb..e7d01ad 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1268,6 +1268,7 @@ help:
@echo ' make C=1 [targets] Check all c source with $$CHECK (sparse by default)'
@echo ' make C=2 [targets] Force check of all c source with $$CHECK'
@echo ' make W=1 [targets] Enable extra gcc checks'
+ @echo ' make RECORDMCOUNT_WARN=1 [targets] Warn about ignored mcount sections'
@echo ''
@echo 'Execute "make" or "make all" to build all targets marked with [*] '
@echo 'For further info see the ./README file'
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index 7d3f903..6165622 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -244,13 +244,16 @@ endif
ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
ifdef BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT
+ifeq ("$(origin RECORDMCOUNT_WARN)", "command line")
+ RECORDMCOUNT_FLAGS = -w
+endif
# Due to recursion, we must skip empty.o.
# The empty.o file is created in the make process in order to determine
# the target endianness and word size. It is made before all other C
# files, including recordmcount.
sub_cmd_record_mcount = \
if [ $(@) != "scripts/mod/empty.o" ]; then \
- $(objtree)/scripts/recordmcount "$(@)"; \
+ $(objtree)/scripts/recordmcount $(RECORDMCOUNT_FLAGS) "$(@)"; \
fi;
recordmcount_source := $(srctree)/scripts/recordmcount.c \
$(srctree)/scripts/recordmcount.h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-16 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-21 2:28 [RFC][PATCH 00/11] ftrace/recordmcount: Remove useless mcount calls not being traced Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 01/11] ftrace/trivial: Clean up recordmcount.c to use Linux style comparisons Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 8:46 ` Alan Cox
2011-04-21 11:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 12:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-22 15:09 ` John Reiser
2011-04-22 15:52 ` Thiago Farina
2011-04-22 16:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-26 18:52 ` Thiago Farina
2011-04-26 19:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-22 16:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-22 17:40 ` John Reiser
2011-04-22 17:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-18 18:31 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:04 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 02/11] ftrace/trivial: Clean up record mcount to use Linux switch style Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:31 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:04 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 03/11] ftrace: Add .kprobe.text section to whitelist for recordmcount.c Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:32 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:05 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 04/11] ftrace/recordmcount: Modify only executable sections Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:32 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:05 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 05/11] ftrace/recordmcount: Make ignored mcount calls into nops at compile time Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:32 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:05 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 06/11] ftrace/recordmcount: Add warning logic to warn on mcount not recorded Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:33 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:06 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 07/11] kbuild/recordmcount: Add RECORDMCOUNT_WARN to warn about mcount callers Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 20:40 ` Michal Marek
2011-04-26 19:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:33 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:06 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt [this message]
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 08/11] ftrace: Avoid recording mcount on .init sections directly Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:34 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:07 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 09/11] ftrace/x86: Do not trace .discard.text section Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:34 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:07 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/11] ftrace/recordmcount: Remove duplicate code to find mcount symbol Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:34 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:07 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 11/11] ftrace/recordmcount: Add helper function get_sym_str_and_relp() Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:35 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:08 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
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