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Message-ID: <20100315184506.GA2303@debian>
Date:	Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:15:06 +0530
From:	Rabin Vincent <rabin@....in>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@...il.com>,
	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] ftrace: allow building without frame pointers

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:36:32PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 12:19 +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> >  ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
> >  KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
> >  else
> > +# Some targets (ARM with Thumb2, for example), can't be built with frame
> > +# pointers.  For those, we don't have FUNCTION_TRACER automatically
> > +# select FRAME_POINTER.  However, FUNCTION_TRACER adds -pg, and this is
> > +# incompatible with -fomit-frame-pointer with current GCC, so we don't use
> > +# -fomit-frame-pointer with FUNCTION_TRACER.
> > +ifndef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
> >  KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -fomit-frame-pointer
> 
> I believe this is correct, but have you tested this on other archs other
> than ARM? I can do it for x86 and PPC, but it will need to wait as those
> machines are currently performing stress tests.

I've tested the series on x86-64.

Note that this particular change will not currently affect other archs
since they still have the "select FRAME_POINTER" in FUNCTION_TRACER.

Rabin
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