From: Shaohua Li In IA64, a function pointer isn't a 'unsigned long' but a 'struct {unsigned long ip, unsigned long gp}'. MCOUNT_ADDR is determined at link time not compile time, so explictly ignore kernel/trace/ftrace.o in recordmcount.pl. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 10 +--------- scripts/recordmcount.pl | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index 9e54a6c..76bb884 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -263,14 +263,6 @@ static void ftrace_update_pid_func(void) # error Dynamic ftrace depends on MCOUNT_RECORD #endif -/* - * Since MCOUNT_ADDR may point to mcount itself, we do not want - * to get it confused by reading a reference in the code as we - * are parsing on objcopy output of text. Use a variable for - * it instead. - */ -static unsigned long mcount_addr = MCOUNT_ADDR; - enum { FTRACE_ENABLE_CALLS = (1 << 0), FTRACE_DISABLE_CALLS = (1 << 1), @@ -575,7 +567,7 @@ ftrace_code_disable(struct module *mod, struct dyn_ftrace *rec) ip = rec->ip; - ret = ftrace_make_nop(mod, rec, mcount_addr); + ret = ftrace_make_nop(mod, rec, MCOUNT_ADDR); if (ret) { ftrace_bug(ret, ip); rec->flags |= FTRACE_FL_FAILED; diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl index 282485a..070042b 100755 --- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl +++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl @@ -109,6 +109,11 @@ if ($#ARGV < 7) { my ($arch, $bits, $objdump, $objcopy, $cc, $ld, $nm, $rm, $mv, $is_module, $inputfile) = @ARGV; +# This file refers to mcount and shouldn't be ftraced, so lets' ignore it +if ($inputfile eq "kernel/trace/ftrace.o") { + exit(0); +} + # Acceptable sections to record. my %text_sections = ( ".text" => 1, -- 1.5.6.5 -- -- 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/