Re: [PATCH] Bring sparc64 dynamic ftrace up to snuff...

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Do the ftrace maintainers mind if I merge the following in via my
> > sparc-next-2.6 tree?
> 
> Not at all.
> 
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > sparc64: Add proper dynamic ftrace support.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/sparc/Kconfig              |    2 +
> >  arch/sparc/include/asm/ftrace.h |   11 +++++++++
> >  arch/sparc/kernel/ftrace.c      |   47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> >  scripts/recordmcount.pl         |   20 ++++++++++++++++
> >  4 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> 
> > +#endif
> > +
> > diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
> > index 409596e..e694eaf 100755
> > --- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl
> > +++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
> > @@ -213,6 +213,26 @@ if ($arch eq "x86_64") {
> >      if ($is_module eq "0") {
> >          $cc .= " -mconstant-gp";
> >      }
> > +} elsif ($arch eq "sparc64") {
> > +    # In the objdump output there are giblets like:
> > +    # 0000000000000000 <igmp_net_exit-0x18>:
> > +    # As there's some data blobs that get emitted into the
> > +    # text section before the first instructions and the first
> > +    # real symbols.  We don't want to match that, so to combat
> > +    # this we use '\w' so we'll match just plain symbol names,
> > +    # and not those that also include hex offsets inside of the
> > +    # '<>' brackets.  Actually the generic function_regex setting
> > +    # could safely use this too.
> > +    $function_regex = "^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\\s+<(\\w*?)>:";
> > +
> > +    # Sparc64 calls '_mcount' instead of plain 'mcount'.
> > +    $mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+):.*\\s_mcount\$";
> > +
> > +    $alignment = 8;
> > +    $type = ".xword";
> > +    $ld .= " -m elf64_sparc";
> > +    $cc .= " -m64";
> > +    $objcopy .= " -O elf64-sparc";
> >  } else {
> >      die "Arch $arch is not supported with CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD";
> >  }
> 
> The only thing outside of arch/sparc is this recordmcount.pl, and 
> that too is arch specific.
> 
> I'm fine with it.
> 
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Me too - thanks David!

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

	Ingo
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