From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760683AbZB0VUe (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:20:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756080AbZB0VTx (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:19:53 -0500 Received: from fifo99.com ([67.223.236.141]:39956 "EHLO fifo99.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755376AbZB0VTw (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:19:52 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't profile branches in arm's boot decompressor From: Daniel Walker To: Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt , Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: <1235768983-4830-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> References: <1235768983-4830-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:19:47 -0800 Message-Id: <1235769587.8233.1.camel@desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 22:09 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > This fixes many compile errors for arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c of > the type: > > arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c:127: error: section attribute cannot be specified for local variables Why do you think this error showed up just in that one file? It looks like the branch tracer puts section tags on non-globals all over the kernel.. Daniel