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2010-10-15	ftrace: Do not process kernel/trace/ftrace.o with C recordmcount program	Steven Rostedt
	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>
2010-10-14	ftrace: Remove duplicate code for 64 and 32 bit in recordmcount.c	Steven Rostedt
	The elf reader for recordmcount.c had duplicate functions for both 32 bit and 64 bit elf handling. This was due to the need of using the 32 and 64 bit elf structures. This patch consolidates the two by using macros to define the 32 and 64 bit names in a recordmcount.h file, and then by just defining a RECORD_MCOUNT_64 macro and including recordmcount.h twice we create the funtions for both the 32 bit version as well as the 64 bit version using one code source. Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-10-14	ftrace: Add C version of recordmcount compile time code	John Reiser
	Currently, the mcount callers are found with a perl script that does an objdump on every file in the kernel. This is a C version of that same code which should increase the performance time of compiling the kernel with dynamic ftrace enabled. Signed-off-by: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com> [ Updated the code to include .text.unlikely section as well as changing the format to follow Linux coding style. ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>