[PATCH 9/9][RFC] ftrace: Remove selecting FRAME_POINTER with FUNCTION_TRACER

[Steven Rostedt]

From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>

The function tracer will enable the -pg option with gcc, which requires
that frame pointers. When FRAME_POINTER is defined in the kernel config
it adds the gcc option -fno-omit-frame-pointer which causes some problems
on some architectures. For those architectures, the FRAME_POINTER select
was not set.

When FUNCTION_TRACER was selected on these architectures that can not have
-fno-omit-frame-pointer, the -pg option is still set. But when
FRAME_POINTER is not selected, the kernel config would add the gcc option
-fomit-frame-pointer. Adding this option is incompatible with -pg
even on archs that do not need frame pointers with -pg.

The answer to this was to just not add either -fno-omit-frame-pointer
or -fomit-frame-pointer on these archs that want function tracing
but do not set FRAME_POINTER.

As it turns out, for archs that require frame pointers for function
tracing, the same can be used. If gcc requires frame pointers with
-pg, it will simply add it. The best thing to do is not select FRAME_POINTER
when function tracing is selected, and let gcc add it if needed.

Only add the -fno-omit-frame-pointer when something else selects
FRAME_POINTER, but do not add -fomit-frame-pointer if function tracing
is selected.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/Kconfig |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index a1d2849..d81a1a5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -141,7 +141,6 @@ if FTRACE
 config FUNCTION_TRACER
 	bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
 	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
-	select FRAME_POINTER if !ARM_UNWIND && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
 	select KALLSYMS
 	select GENERIC_TRACER
 	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
-- 
1.7.9.5


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