Re: 2.6.26-rc5-mm3

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Thu Jun 19 2008 - 10:39:45 EST



On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 11:13 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> the better fix would be to add likely_prof.o to this list of exceptions
> in lib/Makefile:
>
> ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE
> # Do not profile string.o, since it may be used in early boot or vdso
> CFLAGS_REMOVE_string.o = -pg
> # Also do not profile any debug utilities
> CFLAGS_REMOVE_spinlock_debug.o = -pg
> CFLAGS_REMOVE_list_debug.o = -pg
> CFLAGS_REMOVE_debugobjects.o = -pg
> endif
>
> instead of adding notrace to the source.
>
> Ingo

Here's the fix mentioned above.

--

Remove tracing from likely profiling since it could cause recursion if
ftrace uses likely/unlikely macro's internally.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
lib/Makefile | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.25/lib/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.25.orig/lib/Makefile
+++ linux-2.6.25/lib/Makefile
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_string.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_spinlock_debug.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_list_debug.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_debugobjects.o = -pg
+# likely profiling can cause recursion in ftrace, so don't trace it.
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_likely_prof.o = -pg
endif

lib-$(CONFIG_MMU) += ioremap.o


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