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From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@rostedt.homelinux.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't profile branches in arm's boot decompressor
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:28:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090227212809.GA5338@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1235769587.8233.1.camel@desktop>

Hi Daniel,

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:19:47PM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> 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..
With this patch I was able to compile an ARM kernel with profiling
enabled.  Is that enough justification?

Best regards
Uwe

-- 
Pengutronix e.K.                              | Uwe Kleine-König            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                    | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-27 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-27 21:09 [PATCH] Don't profile branches in arm's boot decompressor Uwe Kleine-König
2009-02-27 21:19 ` Daniel Walker
2009-02-27 21:28   ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2009-02-27 21:38     ` Daniel Walker
2009-02-27 21:40   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-02-27 21:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-02-28  6:12   ` Uwe Kleine-König

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