From: Steven Rostedt If the user has an older version of objcopy, that can not handle converting local symbols to global and vice versa, then some functions will not be part of the dynamic function tracer. The current code in recordmcount.pl will print a warning in this case. Unfortunately, there exists lots of files that may have this issue with older objcopys and this will cause a warning for every file compiled with this issue. This patch solves this overwhelming output by creating a .tmp_quiet_recordmcount file on the first instance the warning is encountered. The warning will not print if this file exists. The temp file is deleted at the beginning of the compile to ensure that the warning will happen once again on new compiles (because the issue is still present). Reported-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- Makefile | 1 + scripts/recordmcount.pl | 12 ++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 9425d1d..1c949ac 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ export RCS_TAR_IGNORE := --exclude SCCS --exclude BitKeeper --exclude .svn --exc PHONY += scripts_basic scripts_basic: $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/basic + $(Q)rm -f .tmp_quiet_recordmcount # To avoid any implicit rule to kick in, define an empty command. scripts/basic/%: scripts_basic ; diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl index a4e2435..f0d1445 100755 --- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl +++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl @@ -162,6 +162,11 @@ my $alignment; # The .align value to use for $mcount_section my $section_type; # Section header plus possible alignment command my $can_use_local = 0; # If we can use local function references +# Shut up recordmcount if user has older objcopy +my $quiet_recordmcount = ".tmp_quiet_recordmcount"; +my $print_warning = 1; +$print_warning = 0 if ( -f $quiet_recordmcount); + ## # check_objcopy - whether objcopy supports --globalize-symbols # @@ -179,10 +184,13 @@ sub check_objcopy } close (IN); - if (!$can_use_local) { + if (!$can_use_local && $print_warning) { print STDERR "WARNING: could not find objcopy version or version " . "is less than 2.17.\n" . - "\tLocal function references is disabled.\n"; + "\tLocal function references are disabled.\n"; + open (QUIET, ">$quiet_recordmcount"); + printf QUIET "Disables the warning from recordmcount.pl\n"; + close QUIET; } } -- 1.6.5 -- 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/