Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] ftrace: Do not test frame pointers if -mfentryis used

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Wed Aug 08 2012 - 00:35:09 EST


(2012/08/08 4:38), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The function graph has a test to check if the frame pointer is
> corrupted, which can happen with various options of gcc with mcount.
> But this is not an issue with -mfentry as -mfentry does not need nor use
> frame pointers for function graph tracing.
>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c b/kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c
> index ce27c8b..99b4378 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c
> @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ ftrace_pop_return_trace(struct ftrace_graph_ret *trace, unsigned long *ret,
> return;
> }
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
> +#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST) && !defined(CC_USING_FENTRY)

I think CONFIG_HAVE_FENTRY would better unselect
CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST in arch/x86/Kconfig explicitly.

Thank you,


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Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx


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