Re: [PATCH] Don't profile branches in arm's boot decompressor

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hi Daniel,

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:19:47PM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 22:09 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > This fixes many compile errors for arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c of
> > the type:
> > 
> > 	arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c:127: error: section attribute cannot be specified for local variables
> 
> Why do you think this error showed up just in that one file? It looks
> like the branch tracer puts section tags on non-globals all over the
> kernel..
With this patch I was able to compile an ARM kernel with profiling
enabled.  Is that enough justification?

Best regards
Uwe

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