Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 4/4] init/gcov: allow CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS on UML to fix module gcov

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 07:25:21PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 18:00 +0000, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 55b6f763d8bcb5546997933105d66d3e6b080e6a ]
>>
>> On ARCH=um, loading a module doesn't result in its constructors getting
>> called, which breaks module gcov since the debugfs files are never
>> registered.  On the other hand, in-kernel constructors have already been
>> called by the dynamic linker, so we can't call them again.
>>
>> Get out of this conundrum by allowing CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS to be
>> selected, but avoiding the in-kernel constructor calls.
>>
>> Also remove the "if !UML" from GCOV selecting CONSTRUCTORS now, since we
>> really do want CONSTRUCTORS, just not kernel binary ones.
>>
>> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210120172041.c246a2cac2fb.I1358f584b76f1898373adfed77f4462c8705b736@changeid
>>
>
>
>While I don't really *object* to this getting backported, it's also a
>(development) corner case that somebody wants gcov and modules in
>ARCH=um ... I'd probably not backport this.

I'll drop it then, thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha