[PATCH 1/1] ftrace: adding other non-leaving .text sections

From: Liming Wang
Date: Tue Nov 25 2008 - 21:44:55 EST


Please review this patch, and I don't know whether new sections will conflict
with sched tracer or others.
This patch is against Steven tree's tip/devel latest commit.

Impact: improve recordmcount.pl

Besides .text section, there are three .text sections that won't
be freed after kernel booting. They are: .sched.text, .spinlock.text
and .kprobes.text, which contain functions we can trace. But the last
section ".kprobes.text" is particular, which has been marked as "notrace",
we ignore it. Thus we add other two sections.

Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/recordmcount.pl | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
index 0197e2f..0b1dc9f 100755
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ my ($arch, $bits, $objdump, $objcopy, $cc,
# Acceptable sections to record.
my %text_sections = (
".text" => 1,
+ ".sched.text" => 1,
+ ".spinlock.text" => 1,
);

$objdump = "objdump" if ((length $objdump) == 0);
--
1.6.0.3

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