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From: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
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Subject: Re: -mprofile-kernel vs. notrace in ppc64(le) Linux kernels
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Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de> writes:
> As I mentioned earlier this year, it's a bad idea to call _mcount from
> MMU helper functions (e.g. hash_page...), when the profiling/tracing/
> live-patching/whatever framewok might in turn cause another such fault.
> Jikos suggested to use fine-grained control of these functions with the
> "notrace" keyword in the Linux kernel. It is mapped to GCC's (4.8, FWIW)
> __attribute__((no_instrument_function)), which, to my surprise, works
> for -p and -pg nicely, but does not affect -mprofile-kernel at all!

IIRC from when I was working on GCOV support in OPAL firmware (skiboot),
this doesn't affect the code generated by -fprofile-arcs, so may not
completely do what you want.