Re: [PATCH] ftrace: Speed up recordmcount

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Oct 27 2010 - 09:21:49 EST


[ Added kbuild maintainers ]

On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 18:39 +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
> From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> cmd_record_mcount is only needed for the targets who are compiled with
> -pg, so, only define it when CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD is defined and
> only use it for the targets who are compiled with -pg.

Thanks! I was going to do this myself, but just have not gotten around
to it.

>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@xxxxxxxxx>

I need a SoB from Michal to apply it.

> ---
> Makefile | 11 ++++++++---
> scripts/Makefile.build | 26 ++++++++++++++++----------
> 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 3e43805..60d7a87 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -576,9 +576,14 @@ endif
> ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += -pg
> ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
> - ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
> - BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT := y
> - export BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT
> + ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD

FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE, so if you require
FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD, you can remove the ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE.


> + DEFINE_CMD_RECORD_MCOUNT := y
> + export DEFINE_CMD_RECORD_MCOUNT
> +
> + ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
> + BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT := y
> + export BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT
> + endif
> endif
> endif
> endif
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
> index 5ad25e1..ceb5175 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.build
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
> @@ -208,22 +208,28 @@ cmd_modversions = \
> fi;
> endif
>
> -ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
> +ifdef DEFINE_CMD_RECORD_MCOUNT
> ifdef BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT
> # Due to recursion, we must skip empty.o.
> # The empty.o file is created in the make process in order to determine
> # the target endianness and word size. It is made before all other C
> # files, including recordmcount.
> -cmd_record_mcount = if [ $(@) != "scripts/mod/empty.o" ]; then \
> - $(objtree)/scripts/recordmcount "$(@)"; \
> - fi;
> +cmd_record_mcount = \
> + if [ "$(findstring -pg,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS))" == "-pg" ]; then \
> + if [ $(@) != "scripts/mod/empty.o" ]; then \
> + $(objtree)/scripts/recordmcount "$(@)"; \
> + fi; \
> + fi;
> else
> -cmd_record_mcount = set -e ; perl $(srctree)/scripts/recordmcount.pl "$(ARCH)" \
> - "$(if $(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN),big,little)" \
> - "$(if $(CONFIG_64BIT),64,32)" \
> - "$(OBJDUMP)" "$(OBJCOPY)" "$(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS)" \
> - "$(LD)" "$(NM)" "$(RM)" "$(MV)" \
> - "$(if $(part-of-module),1,0)" "$(@)";
> +cmd_record_mcount = \
> + if [ "$(findstring -pg,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS))" == "-pg" ]; then \
> + set -e ; perl $(srctree)/scripts/recordmcount.pl "$(ARCH)" \
> + "$(if $(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN),big,little)" \
> + "$(if $(CONFIG_64BIT),64,32)" \
> + "$(OBJDUMP)" "$(OBJCOPY)" "$(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS)" \
> + "$(LD)" "$(NM)" "$(RM)" "$(MV)" \
> + "$(if $(part-of-module),1,0)" "$(@)"; \
> + fi;
> endif
> endif
>


Note, this does not catch objects that have the -pg stripped by
CFLAGS_REMOVE_object.o


How about something like this:

ifdef DEFINE_CMD_RECORD_MCOUNT
ifdef BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT
sub_cmd_record_mcount = if [ $(@) != "scripts/mod/empty.o" ]; then \
$(objtree)/scripts/recordmcount "$(@)"; \
fi;
else
sub_cmd_record_mcount = set -e ; perl $(srctree)/scripts/recordmcount.pl "$(ARCH)" \
"$(if $(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN),big,little)" \
"$(if $(CONFIG_64BIT),64,32)" \
"$(OBJDUMP)" "$(OBJCOPY)" "$(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS)" \
"$(LD)" "$(NM)" "$(RM)" "$(MV)" \
"$(if $(part-of-module),1,0)" "$(@)";
endif
cmd_record_mcount = \
if [ "$(findstring -pg, $(_c_flags))" == "-pg" ]; then \
$(sub_cmd_record_mcount) \
fi;
endif


I tested the above and it seemed to work (although, I did it on another
machine, and copied it here by hand, so this version may have a typo).

-- Steve


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