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

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

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

[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
>