ftrace, ia64: explictly ignore a file in recordmcount.pl
In IA64, a function pointer isn't a 'unsigned long' but a
'struct {unsigned long ip, unsigned long gp}'. MCOUNT_ADDR is determined
at link time not compile time, so explictly ignore kernel/trace/ftrace.o
in recordmcount.pl.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 9e54a6c..76bb884 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -263,14 +263,6 @@
# error Dynamic ftrace depends on MCOUNT_RECORD
#endif
-/*
- * Since MCOUNT_ADDR may point to mcount itself, we do not want
- * to get it confused by reading a reference in the code as we
- * are parsing on objcopy output of text. Use a variable for
- * it instead.
- */
-static unsigned long mcount_addr = MCOUNT_ADDR;
-
enum {
FTRACE_ENABLE_CALLS = (1 << 0),
FTRACE_DISABLE_CALLS = (1 << 1),
@@ -575,7 +567,7 @@
ip = rec->ip;
- ret = ftrace_make_nop(mod, rec, mcount_addr);
+ ret = ftrace_make_nop(mod, rec, MCOUNT_ADDR);
if (ret) {
ftrace_bug(ret, ip);
rec->flags |= FTRACE_FL_FAILED;
