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From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ptx kernel <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: dynamic ftrace/recordmcount.c problem on ARMv5
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:23:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56967A18.1030900@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160113110856.4e7c5cdb@gandalf.local.home>

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On 01/13/2016 05:08 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 09:51:28 +0100
> Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> 
>> There are 5 calls to __gnu_mcount_nc in the object file:
>>> $ objdump -x arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.o | grep R_ARM_CALL | grep __gnu_mcount_nc
>>> 00000054 R_ARM_CALL        __gnu_mcount_nc
>>> 0000016c R_ARM_CALL        __gnu_mcount_nc
>>> 00000234 R_ARM_CALL        __gnu_mcount_nc
>>> 0000026c R_ARM_CALL        __gnu_mcount_nc
>>> 000002f4 R_ARM_CALL        __gnu_mcount_nc  
>>
>> However there are 6 references in the __mcount_loc section:
>>> $ readelf -R __mcount_loc arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.o                            
>>>
>>> Hex dump of section '__mcount_loc':
>>>   0x00000000 24000000 54000000 6c010000 34020000 $...T...l...4...
>>>   0x00000010 6c020000 f4020000                   l.......  
>>
>> Note: The first and wrong offset is 0x24, which is a "bx r6" (see above
>> objdump of stacktrace.o):
>>>   24:	e12fff16 	bx	r6  
> 
> Interesting. Have you tried a make mrproper and tried again? Also, do
> you use hardlinks with ccache?

That happens on ARMv5 with a clean build. No ccache involved (this issue
should be fixed on >= v4.4)

>> I hacked scripts/Makefile.build to use the perl version of recordmcount,
>> that works without problems.
> 
> Note, you could also just removed CONFIG_HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT from
> arch/arm/Kconfig.

This is the patch I'm using as a workaround.

regards,
Marc

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-13 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-13  8:51 dynamic ftrace/recordmcount.c problem on ARMv5 Marc Kleine-Budde
2016-01-13 16:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-01-13 16:23   ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message]
2016-01-13 16:27     ` Steven Rostedt
2016-01-13 16:30       ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2016-02-08 15:38 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2016-02-08 15:53   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-03-11  9:21 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2016-03-20  3:48   ` Namhyung Kim
2016-03-20 20:00     ` Uwe Kleine-König

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