tracing: Add -mcount-nop option support
authorVasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Mon, 6 Aug 2018 13:17:46 +0000 (15:17 +0200)
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 02:38:38 +0000 (22:38 -0400)
-mcount-nop gcc option generates the calls to the profiling functions
as nops which allows to avoid patching mcount jump with NOP instructions
initially.

-mcount-nop gcc option will be activated if platform selects
HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT and gcc actually supports it.
In addition to that CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT is defined and could be used by
architectures to adapt ftrace patching behavior.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/patch-3.thread-aa7b8d.git-e02ed2dc082b.your-ad-here.call-01533557518-ext-9465@work.hours
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Makefile
kernel/trace/Kconfig
kernel/trace/ftrace.c

index 2c92ebf59a34fd84137ba240bb93dad677c30c75..c5b0cd7f3c2a787db966b81b8cd26b5df663a7e9 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -749,6 +749,12 @@ ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
     CC_FLAGS_FTRACE    += -mrecord-mcount
     export CC_USING_RECORD_MCOUNT := 1
   endif
+  ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT
+    ifeq ($(call cc-option-yn, -mnop-mcount),y)
+      CC_FLAGS_FTRACE  += -mnop-mcount
+      CC_FLAGS_USING   += -DCC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT
+    endif
+  endif
 endif
 ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_FENTRY
   ifeq ($(call cc-option-yn, -mfentry),y)
index 036cec1fcd241f501fbca3e366c2ad9093b86962..fd6754b88f87cfca499ec1dc7549cd8f2449f738 100644 (file)
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ config HAVE_FENTRY
        help
          Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
 
+config HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT
+       bool
+       help
+         Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount
+
 config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
        bool
        help
index 48b5b466ec7a3cb8e6c5c9481baf6d3582ae7427..468e8527e9796379255fd197f2021ae74afa2da5 100644 (file)
@@ -2950,12 +2950,14 @@ static int ftrace_update_code(struct module *mod, struct ftrace_page *new_pgs)
                        p = &pg->records[i];
                        p->flags = rec_flags;
 
+#ifndef CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT
                        /*
                         * Do the initial record conversion from mcount jump
                         * to the NOP instructions.
                         */
                        if (!ftrace_code_disable(mod, p))
                                break;
+#endif
 
                        update_cnt++;
                }