Re: [PATCH] scripts/recordmcount.c: account for .softirqentry.text

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:13:15 +0200
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Commit "arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections"
> added .softirqentry.text section, but it was not added to recordmcount.
> So functions in the section are untracable.
> Add the section to scripts/recordmcount.c.
> 
> Fixes: be7635e7287e ("arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.6+
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'm currently traveling and wont have time to process this any time
soon. But it looks good to me.

Acked-by: Steve Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

If someone else wants to pull this into their tree I'm fine with that.
It doesn't look like I would have to run this through my test suite.

I'm fine with the stable tag too.

-- Steve

> ---
>  scripts/recordmcount.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.c b/scripts/recordmcount.c
> index 42396a7..a68f031 100644
> --- a/scripts/recordmcount.c
> +++ b/scripts/recordmcount.c
> @@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ is_mcounted_section_name(char const *const txtname)
>  		strcmp(".sched.text",    txtname) == 0 ||
>  		strcmp(".spinlock.text", txtname) == 0 ||
>  		strcmp(".irqentry.text", txtname) == 0 ||
> +		strcmp(".softirqentry.text", txtname) == 0 ||
>  		strcmp(".kprobes.text", txtname) == 0 ||
>  		strcmp(".text.unlikely", txtname) == 0;
>  }