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authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2010-10-15 19:49:47 +0400
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2010-10-15 19:49:47 +0400
commit444758636439810f110f86a3042c2dfd3626a9e2 (patch)
tree5aa9ff2f34daa5d1bf0f2bd7134d011b38303e19 /scripts/recordmcount.c
parentcf4db2597ae93b60efc0a7a4ec08690b75d629b1 (diff)
downloadlinux-444758636439810f110f86a3042c2dfd3626a9e2.tar.xz
ftrace: Do not process kernel/trace/ftrace.o with C recordmcount program
The file kernel/trace/ftrace.c references the mcount() call to convert the mcount() callers to nops. But because it references mcount(), the mcount() address is placed in the relocation table. The C version of recordmcount reads the relocation table of all object files, and it will add all references to mcount to the __mcount_loc table that is used to find the places that call mcount() and change the call to a nop. When recordmcount finds the mcount reference in kernel/trace/ftrace.o, it saves that location even though the code is not a call, but references mcount as data. On boot up, when all calls are converted to nops, the code has a safety check to determine what op code it is actually replacing before it replaces it. If that op code at the address does not match, then a warning is printed and the function tracer is disabled. The reference to mcount in ftrace.c, causes this warning to trigger, since the reference is not a call to mcount(). The ftrace.c file is not compiled with the -pg flag, so no calls to mcount() should be expected. This patch simply makes recordmcount.c skip the kernel/trace/ftrace.c file. This was the same solution used by the perl version of recordmcount. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/recordmcount.c')
-rw-r--r--scripts/recordmcount.c22
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.c b/scripts/recordmcount.c
index 7f7f7180fe24..26e1271259ba 100644
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.c
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.c
@@ -313,12 +313,30 @@ do_file(char const *const fname)
int
main(int argc, char const *argv[])
{
+ const char ftrace[] = "kernel/trace/ftrace.o";
+ int ftrace_size = sizeof(ftrace) - 1;
int n_error = 0; /* gcc-4.3.0 false positive complaint */
- if (argc <= 1)
+
+ if (argc <= 1) {
fprintf(stderr, "usage: recordmcount file.o...\n");
- else /* Process each file in turn, allowing deep failure. */
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ /* Process each file in turn, allowing deep failure. */
for (--argc, ++argv; 0 < argc; --argc, ++argv) {
int const sjval = setjmp(jmpenv);
+ int len;
+
+ /*
+ * The file kernel/trace/ftrace.o references the mcount
+ * function but does not call it. Since ftrace.o should
+ * not be traced anyway, we just skip it.
+ */
+ len = strlen(argv[0]);
+ if (len >= ftrace_size &&
+ strcmp(argv[0] + (len - ftrace_size), ftrace) == 0)
+ continue;
+
switch (sjval) {
default: {
fprintf(stderr, "internal error: %s\n", argv[0]);