Re: [PATCH] ftrace porting of linux-2.6.29 for mips

[Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>]

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Zhang Le wrote:
> I got ftrace working on fuloong 2f box, finally.
> 
> The patch could be get here:
> http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/linux-loongson.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-2.6.29-stable-ftrace-from-wu
> 
> It is the second last patch in the above git repo.

I pulled this patch into my local tree to try it out. The attached patch 
removes spurious warnings about linking pic and non-pic object files.

It might be better to pass KBUILD_CFLAGS into the script to get the same 
build options as the rest of the kernel. Was there a reason not to do this?

Regards
Chris

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commit dfda04e16fa0cb3929c799d3fdec6b2c1bcc7e51
Author: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 15 10:26:38 2009 -0700

    [MIPS] Generate non-PIC object file when building mcount helper code
    
    Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>

diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
index 8f6118e..ccf4043 100755
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ if ($arch eq "x86_64") {
             $ld .= " -melf".$bits."ltsmip";
     }   
 
-    $cc .= " -mno-abicalls -mabi=" . $bits . $endian;
+    $cc .= " -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -mabi=" . $bits . $endian;
     $ld .= $endian;
 
     if ($bits == 64) {