linux-kernel - Re: RFC: How to handle function tracing, frame pointers and -mfentry?

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Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:11:08 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: How to handle function tracing, frame pointers and
	-mfentry?

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:50:28AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > 
> > I just measured and a null compile (nothing changes) of a current
> > tree calls "gcc" 141 times.
> Something is wrong then which must be fixed.
> There are 55 uses of cc-option in */x86/*
> And only 7 uses of cc-option in the top-level Makefile.
> 
> So it looks like we evalute the same assignmet twice or more.

"make defconfig" in my box calls gcc 50 times.
This looks much closer to the actual usage of cc-option in the
above mentioned files.
How did you manage to achieve 144 calls to gcc?

Any specific configuration that triggers this?

	Sam
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