The text section stays in memory without ever leaving. With the exception of modules, but modules know how to handle that case. With the dynamic ftrace tracer, we need to make sure that it does not try to modify code that no longer exists. The only safe section is .text. This patch changes the recordmcount script to only record the mcount calls in the .text sections. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- scripts/recordmcount.pl | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-compile.git/scripts/recordmcount.pl =================================================================== --- linux-compile.git.orig/scripts/recordmcount.pl 2008-10-23 09:20:24.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-compile.git/scripts/recordmcount.pl 2008-10-23 09:20:46.000000000 -0400 @@ -109,6 +109,11 @@ if ($#ARGV < 6) { my ($arch, $bits, $objdump, $objcopy, $cc, $ld, $nm, $rm, $mv, $inputfile) = @ARGV; +# Acceptable sections to record. +my %text_sections = ( + ".text" => 1, +); + $objdump = "objdump" if ((length $objdump) == 0); $objcopy = "objcopy" if ((length $objcopy) == 0); $cc = "gcc" if ((length $cc) == 0); @@ -139,7 +144,7 @@ if ($arch eq "x86") { } if ($arch eq "x86_64") { - $section_regex = "Disassembly of section"; + $section_regex = "Disassembly of section\\s+(\\S+):"; $function_regex = "^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\\s+<(.*?)>:"; $mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+):.*\\smcount([+-]0x[0-9a-zA-Z]+)?\$"; $type = ".quad"; @@ -151,7 +156,7 @@ if ($arch eq "x86_64") { $cc .= " -m64"; } elsif ($arch eq "i386") { - $section_regex = "Disassembly of section"; + $section_regex = "Disassembly of section\\s+(\\S+):"; $function_regex = "^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\\s+<(.*?)>:"; $mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+):.*\\smcount\$"; $type = ".long"; @@ -298,7 +303,13 @@ my $text; while () { # is it a section? if (/$section_regex/) { - $read_function = 1; + + # Only record text sections that we know are safe + if (defined($text_sections{$1})) { + $read_function = 1; + } else { + $read_function = 0; + } # print out any recorded offsets update_funcs() if ($text_found); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/