From: Steven Rostedt The section called .discard.text has tracing attached to it and is currently ignored by ftrace. But it does include a call to the mcount stub. Adding a notrace to the code keeps gcc from adding the useless mcount caller to it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023739.243651696@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h index db8aa19..647d8a0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ void *extend_brk(size_t size, size_t align); * executable.) */ #define RESERVE_BRK(name,sz) \ - static void __section(.discard.text) __used \ + static void __section(.discard.text) __used notrace \ __brk_reservation_fn_##name##__(void) { \ asm volatile ( \ ".pushsection .brk_reservation,\"aw\",@nobits;" \ -- 1.7.4.4 -- 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/