Re: [PATCH/RESEND] recordmcount: arm: Implement make_nop

[Stephen Boyd]

On 11/15, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 19 October 2016 at 00:42, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In similar spirit to x86 and arm64 support, add a make_nop_arm()
> > to replace calls to mcount with a nop in sections that aren't
> > traced.
> >
> > Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@xxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  scripts/recordmcount.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 65 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.c b/scripts/recordmcount.c
> > index 5423a58d1b06..aeb34223167c 100644
> > --- a/scripts/recordmcount.c
> > +++ b/scripts/recordmcount.c
> > @@ -213,6 +213,59 @@ static int make_nop_x86(void *map, size_t const offset)
> >         return 0;
> >  }
> >
> > +static unsigned char ideal_nop4_arm_le[4] = { 0x00, 0x00, 0xa0, 0xe1 }; /* mov r0, r0 */
> > +static unsigned char ideal_nop4_arm_be[4] = { 0xe1, 0xa0, 0x00, 0x00 }; /* mov r0, r0 */
> 
> Shouldn't you be taking the difference between BE8 and BE32 into
> account here? IIRC, BE8 uses little endian encoding for instructions.

I admit I haven't tested on a pre-armv6 CPU so I haven't come
across the case of a BE32 CPU. But from what I can tell that
doesn't matter.

According to scripts/Makefile.build, cmd_record_mcount only runs
the recordmcount program if CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD=y. That
config is defined as:

	config FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
		def_bool y
		depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
		depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD


And in arch/arm/Kconfig we see that DYNAMIC_FTRACE is selected:

	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if (!XIP_KERNEL) && !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 && MMU

which means that FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD can't be set when
CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 is set.

Do you agree that BE32 is not a concern here?

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