[PATCH][GIT PULL] recordmcount: Fix handling of elf64 big-endianobjects

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Jan 06 2012 - 22:15:52 EST



Ingo,

Please pull the latest tip/perf/urgent tree, which can be found at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace.git
tip/perf/urgent

Head SHA1: 2e885057b7f75035f0b85e02f737891482815a81


David Daney (1):
recordmcount: Fix handling of elf64 big-endian objects

----
scripts/recordmcount.h | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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commit 2e885057b7f75035f0b85e02f737891482815a81
Author: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Dec 19 17:42:42 2011 -0800

recordmcount: Fix handling of elf64 big-endian objects.

In ELF64, the sh_flags field is 64-bits wide. recordmcount was
erroneously treating it as a 32-bit wide field. For little endian
objects this works because the flags of interest (SHF_EXECINSTR)
reside in the lower 32 bits of the word, and you get the same result
with either a 32-bit or 64-bit read. Big endian objects on the
other hand do not work at all with this error.

The fix: Correctly treat sh_flags as 64-bits wide in elf64 objects.

The symptom I observed was that my
__start_mcount_loc..__stop_mcount_loc was empty even though ftrace
function tracing was enabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324345362-12230-1-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@xxxxxxxxx

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx # 3.0+
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.h b/scripts/recordmcount.h
index f40a6af6..54e35c1 100644
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.h
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.h
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ __has_rel_mcount(Elf_Shdr const *const relhdr, /* is SHT_REL or SHT_RELA */
succeed_file();
}
if (w(txthdr->sh_type) != SHT_PROGBITS ||
- !(w(txthdr->sh_flags) & SHF_EXECINSTR))
+ !(_w(txthdr->sh_flags) & SHF_EXECINSTR))
return NULL;
return txtname;
}


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