Re: [PATCH] ftrace: use .sched.text, not .text.sched in recordmcount.pl.

[Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 21:30 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 08:06:11PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
> > The only references in the kernel to the .text.sched section are in
> > recordmcount.pl.  Since the code it has is intended to be example code
> > it should refer to real kernel sections.  So change it to .sched.text
> > instead.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
> > Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
> 
> Steven - this change is independent of the ongoing
> section rework and is a pure documentation fix.
> 
> Please apply it with my ack.
> 
> 	Sam

Will do, Thanks!

-- Steve

> 
> [Kept whole patch for reference]
> 
> > ---
> >  scripts/recordmcount.pl |    6 +++---
> >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
> > index 409596e..0fae7da 100755
> > --- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl
> > +++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
> > @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
> >  # which will also be the location of that section after final link.
> >  # e.g.
> >  #
> > -#  .section ".text.sched"
> > +#  .section ".sched.text", "ax"
> >  #  .globl my_func
> >  #  my_func:
> >  #        [...]
> > @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
> >  #        [...]
> >  #
> >  # Both relocation offsets for the mcounts in the above example will be
> > -# offset from .text.sched. If we make another file called tmp.s with:
> > +# offset from .sched.text. If we make another file called tmp.s with:
> >  #
> >  #  .section __mcount_loc
> >  #  .quad  my_func + 0x5
> > @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
> >  # But this gets hard if my_func is not globl (a static function).
> >  # In such a case we have:
> >  #
> > -#  .section ".text.sched"
> > +#  .section ".sched.text", "ax"
> >  #  my_func:
> >  #        [...]
> >  #        call mcount  (offset: 0x5)
> > -- 
> > 1.6.2.1
> >