Re: [PATCH v9 01/16] tracing: move function tracer options to Kconfig (causing parisc build failures)

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Feb 24 2021 - 15:40:06 EST


On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:17:23PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:46:18AM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > Move function tracer options to Kconfig to make it easier to add
> > new methods for generating __mcount_loc, and to make the options
> > available also when building kernel modules.
> >
> > Note that FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_* options are updated on rebuild and
> > therefore, work even if the .config was generated in a different
> > environment.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> With this patch in place, parisc:allmodconfig no longer builds.
>
> Error log:
> Arch parisc is not supported with CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD at scripts/recordmcount.pl line 405.
> make[2]: *** [scripts/mod/empty.o] Error 2
>
> Due to this problem, CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD can no longer be
> enabled in parisc builds. Since that is auto-selected by DYNAMIC_FTRACE,
> DYNAMIC_FTRACE can no longer be enabled, and with it everything that
> depends on it.

Ew. Any idea why this didn't show up while it was in linux-next?

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Kees Cook