Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] ftrace: Do not test frame pointers if -mfentry is used

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 06:45:37AM +0300, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > No, CONFIG_HAVE_FENTRY just means fentry is supported, it does not mean
> > that it is being used. It only gets used if CC_USING_FENTRY is set,
> > which is set by the Makefile at time of compile.
> 
> Btw, it might be lovely to consider the concept of "Kconfig variables
> set by shell-scripts".

I looked into it some time ago because I needed it for something else.
But no mergeable patch produced. Will try again.

One issue was that it will break some odd cross compiling or ccache
setups where the compiler is not set correctly at config time. 
But I think it would be worth it.

> We currently have a metric sh*t-ton of Makefile magic for testing
> various things like this, and integrating it into Kconfig might be a
> good idea. That way you would be able to use the Kconfig logic on
> these things.

Also another big win would be to make the empty do nothing build faster,
because the decisions would be cached.

I measured recently and we execute 30+ gccs on a empty build.

-Andi