Re: [PATCH] ftrace: update recordmount.pl arch changes

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Aug 15 2008 - 11:57:36 EST



On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Ingo,
> >
> > I'm trying to keep all the arch changes in recordmcount.pl in one
> > place. I moved your code into that area, by adding the flags to the
> > commands that were passed in.
> >
> > Does this change still work for you when compiling i386 on a x86_64
> > box?
>
> actually, i thought of this as a quick hack to let -tip testing
> continue. Dont we have all the proper information available in kbuild
> and should just pass that to scripts/recordmcount.pl when called - like
> we pass in things like OBJDUMP which might have cross-build overrides,
> etc.

OK, I'll set up one of my x86_64 boxes to compile the kernel for i386s,
and see if I can come up with something.

The reason I did this patch, is to get the PPC patches ready to go on top.

I still need to port to ppc32 (I have 64 working).

-- Steve

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